Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shoal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, v. t.
To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow
part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that
which is less deep. --Marryat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, n. [AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude,
crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division,
and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See {Skill}, and
cf. {School}. of fishes.]
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said
especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. ``Great shoals of
people.'' --Bacon.
Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. --Waller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shoaled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shoaling}.]
To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled
about the place. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, a. [Cf. {Shallow}; or cf. G. scholle a clod,
glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a
multitude.]
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, n.
1. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc.,
is shallow; a shallow.
The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on
the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their
span. --Mortimer.
Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And
sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. --Shak.
2. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes
the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves
them off the shoals. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoal \Shoal\, v. i.
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it
shoals.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shoal
adj : full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy
shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: {reefy}, {shelfy}, {shelvy},
{shoaly}]
n 1: a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
2: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shallow}]
3: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish
swam by" [syn: {school}]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shallow}]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shallow}]
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