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Shoaly

Shoaly \Shoal"y\, a. Full of shoals, or shallow places.

The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.
--Dryden.

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shoaly

a. Full of shoals, or shallow places.

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shoaly

adj. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: reefy, shelfy, shelvy]

Usage examples of "shoaly".

The coil of wire on the deck behind him was three hundred feet long, but because the bottom was shoaly and erratic, they had set the sensor at only fifty feet.

Cybellian overlords preferred the shoaly bay on the eastern side of the peninsula upon which Landsend was built.

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

The lugger had long since gone away, its escape from the shoaly bay assisted by the rising tide.