What is "shoals"

Usage examples of "shoals".

During the heaviest part of the hurricane a bark went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals, just below Cape Henlopen and at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, and Tom Chist was the only soul of all those on board the ill-fated vessel who escaped alive.

There were fisherboats out on the shoals, white sails taut like enormous shark fins plying the sea beyond the breakers.

Beyond the shoals, their white specks followed the wind, angling south-westward.

Marghe saw thousands of silver fish, gliding beneath the surface in great shoals that flickered and swung silver like a bead curtain as they changed direction.

Indians were sent forward through narrow channels between shoals and sandbanks, and the men were frequently obliged to quit the boats and exert their utmost strength to drag or thrust them along.

Nelson, perceiving that they beat him in sailing, boldly ran among the numerous shoals of St.

The wind fell, and prevented Lord Hood from getting between them and the shore, as he designed: boats came out from Antibes and other places to their assistance, and towed them within the shoals in Gourjean Roads, where they were protected by the batteries on isles St.

There will be a gasolene engine on board, but it will be used only in case of emergency, such as in bad water among reefs and shoals, where a sudden calm in a swift current leaves a sailing-boat helpless.

As the bottom shoals, the lower portion of the wave strikes land first and is stopped.

But the transformation from a smooth undulation to a breaker is not abrupt except where the bottom shoals abruptly.

Say the bottom shoals gradually for from quarter of a mile to a mile, then an equal distance will be occupied by the transformation.

The brigs turned where the shoals marked the limit of Cap Ferrat and were swallowed in the rising sea and the squalls of rain.

Savage tribes of black men, animals and disease when they landed, and shoals and currents, winds and calms upon the sea.

They wheeled and fell into the pattern of the whole as though a single mind directed them, the way shoals of fish or flights of migrating birds react to unspoken commands.

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.