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shoal
1[ shohl ]
noun
- a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow:
The clams and mussels gathered from these shoals are the best you’ll ever find.
Synonyms: ford, shallow(s)
- a sandbank or sandbar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
Synonyms: reef
adjective
- of little depth, as water; shallow:
The first thing these newcomers do is buy a boat and promptly get stuck in the shoal waters, which they know nothing about.
verb (used without object)
- to become shallow or more shallow:
The river significantly shoals between the old stone bridge and the bend at Tuttle’s Crossing.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to become shallow:
Shoaling the approach has effectively kept the larger vessels out of our small harbor.
- Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).
shoal
2[ shohl ]
noun
- any large number of persons or things.
- a school of fish:
a shoal of herring;
a shoal of mackerel.
verb (used without object)
- to collect in a shoal; throng.
shoal
1/ ʃəʊl /
noun
- a large group of certain aquatic animals, esp fish
- a large group of people or things
verb
- intr to collect together in such a group
shoal
2/ ʃəʊl /
noun
- a stretch of shallow water
- a sandbank or rocky area in a stretch of water, esp one that is visible at low water
verb
- to make or become shallow
- intr nautical to sail into shallower water
adjective
- a less common word for shallow
- nautical (of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water
shoal
/ shōl /
- A submerged mound or ridge of sediment in a body of shallow water.
Derived Forms
- ˈshoaliness, noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of shoal1
Origin of shoal2
Example Sentences
Its long-recorded history, which dates back to a ninth-century Icelandic saga and its mapping by Portuguese sailors in the 1500s, is littered with accounts of deadly shipwrecks on the island’s treacherous shoals.
Expect lots of shoals and waves, with long eddies between rapids.
Alter finds little evidence of open bigotry in his past, but Carter usually managed to navigate the perilous shoals of racial politics in the Deep South by portage — avoiding them as best he could.
Off the entrance is a high rocky islet, the Nobby, within which the channel is shoal and dangerous to pass.
The continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.
At a short quarter of a mile from the point is a rocky shoal of small size, between which and the shore there is deep water.
Some shoal marks on the water were observed opposite these islands, but their existence was not ascertained.
At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.
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