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Area near the shore
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shallows
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of shallow English) 2 (context plural only English) An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
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Shallows (1984) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton . It won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award . Carolyn See called it "a dark masterpiece that ranks with Moby-Dick ".
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man scything brown bracken by the shallows of Dunoon. ▪ But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows . ▪ It was as if the viewer were actually standing ankle-deep ...
Usage examples of shallows.
How might he engage them in any manner to distract them, to buy his friends and the other gallant defenders of Shallows some respite, at least, while they fended the town from the orc hordes?
The coils writhed beneath him and he rode the Lamiae from out of the shallows of the Sha'angh'sei sea, past the creaming reefs, teeming with life, and out, away, away, on the great westerly currents, into the deep.
Both knew that the small town of Shallows, with its trademark tower and renowned wizard, had seen an influx of people right before the winter—frontiersmen who would need fine weapons, armor, and horseshoes — and both had heard King Warcrown's proclamation that he would be pleased to establish trading routes along the Spine of the World.
Drizzt felt his heart racing, and he began looking desperately all around, scolding himself for going off on his own that afternoon, pushing farther into the mountains in an effort to try to spot the lone tower that marked the town of Shallows, and leaving his friends so far behind.
No orc'll e'er climb the wall of Shallows, and no giant'll ever knock it down!
In just looking at the place, it seemed to him as if Shallows was trying hard to become a regular town, a settled place, instead of the pocket of rogues and outlaws he had always thought it and all the other towns of the Savage Frontier to be.
The walls of Shallows and the houses alike are of stone, and may seem cold — though not to a dwarf!
With its singular tower, Shallows was quite distinct in this region of abandoned, simple villages and underground dwarven or goblinkin strongholds.
Night had been on for some time, and all of the patrols from Shallows were human in make-up, and all of them were carrying torches.
Not a man or woman of Shallows was unfamiliar with the use of a blade, nor were any inexperienced in killing.
If the force allied against Shallows is as strong as indications, then the folk of the town may all wish that they had gone out before too long.
They held a short, private conversation off to the side, and the man from Shallows was smiling and nodding as he returned.
Avoiding them had been easy enough, but by the time Drizzt had been able to scramble out of the bowl and head back toward Shallows, the leading edge of the assaulting force was far ahead of him.
While Shallows would continue to see a thinning of their forces as men and dwarves were injured, the orcs' numbers would likely grow.
As he came up the northern facing, he paused to look back at Shallows, and he knew then that his guess about the giants had been correct.