Sekirov Dictionary

shoal

/ʃəʊl/

verb 4
noun 4
adjective 1
forms 5

verb4

•
To collect in a shoal; to throng.
- The fish shoaled about the place.
•
To become shallow.
- The colour of the water shows where it shoals.
To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
•
To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
- Noting the rate at which she shoals her water -[…] — 1859

noun4

•
Any large number of persons or things.
- Shoals of tourists
•
A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. — 1661
•
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals. — 1697
•
A shallow in a body of water.
- The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to sun themselves in and to lay their spawn. — 1707

adjective1

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(no longer used) Shallow.
- But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle. — 1819

forms

shoaled · shoaling · shoals · shoaler · shoalest

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