Definition of Shoal

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Definition of Shoal

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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