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A large group of fish
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shoal
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Word definitions for shoal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoal \Shoal\, v. i. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A shoal is a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping. Shoal , shoals or shoaling may also refer to:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 (context now rare English) shallow. alt. (context now rare English) shallow. n. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. v 1 To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) are 2 To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. 3 To become shallow. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"place of shallow water," c.1300, from Old English schealde (adj.), from sceald "shallow," from Proto-Germanic *skala- (cognates: Swedish skäll "thin;" Low German schol , Frisian skol "not deep"), of uncertain origin. The terminal -d was dropped 16c.
Usage examples of shoal.
Amongst the shoals of smaller sharks there were at least two dozen of the ugly beasts that the islanders called Albacore shark.
When Matesi struggled to escape a shrewd crack over his scalp with a marlin spike quieted him and, with his mates, he was shoved into the longboat and rowed out to where the Gull lay anchored at the edge of the shoals.
The Rebels held the strong forts of Caswell and Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and outside, the Frying Pan Shoals, which extended along the coast forty or fifty miles, kept our blockading fleet so far off, and made the line so weak and scattered, that there was comparatively little risk to the small, swift-sailing vessels employed by the blockade runners in running through it.
Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.
Such a wreck as that which then went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals was a godsend to the poor and needy settlers in the wilderness where so few good things ever came.
Cape, and found traces of caravans, reached as far as an inlet they named Gurnet Bay, from its shoals of fish, and again put back to Lagos, early in the year.
Next day I had shoals of visitors, and many of the chiefs of the party opposed to Branicki sent me purses full of gold.
I would have stripped off and waded in, but as I filled the jerrican something big swirled in the moving shadow of a shoal of fish and the surface of the water was whipped to a froth, leaping glints of silver.
It was not running, because the engine was out of commission, but Kuta could fix it, and he could negotiate the shoals to reach the mainland.
Seeing them thus darting away like a shoal of frightened fish, Leeming muttered.
Plymouth I watched the Mayflower threading its way round the shoals and promontories of that intricate bay.
Perhaps the whole of DatAmerica possessed its own nodal points, info-faults that might be followed down to some other kind of truth, another mode of knowing, deep within gray shoals of information.
And, chatter, hop, skip, they were sent, In a buzz of young company glee, Their natural music, swift shoal To the next easy shedders of pence.
They went in very slowly, feeling their way, with the water shoaling all the time.
That one day, perhaps soon, she would join the mystery, toppling down the sky, broken-bagged, from heat layer to heat layer, spinning the last life equations through lanes of mist and crystal, songless, descrying the lower wonders at long last, she knew, as all of them knew, there in the zone of song which was memory and the marriage of minds, knew, and was incapable of avoiding, there in the shoals of life, moving in the timeless present.