Shoal
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
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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Shoal Translations
shoal in German is Schar, Untiefe
shoal in Swedish is fiskstim, sandrev
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