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Definition of Shoal
| n. | 1. | A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; - said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. | | v. i. | 1. | To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. | | a. | 1. | Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. | | n. | 1. | A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. | | 2. | A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. | | v. i. | 1. | To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. |
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