shoal
IPA: ʃˈoʊɫ
noun
- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- A shallow in a body of water.
- Any large number of persons or things.
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
verb
- To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
- (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
- To become shallow.
- To collect in a shoal; to throng.
adjective
- (now rare) Shallow.
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Examples of "shoal" in Sentences
- "Only on the first shoal, which is in the 'Reed's' station, sir," Mr. Ormsby replied.
- The word shoal, on the other hand, is the term for any simple social grouping of fish. "
- Notwithstanding the currents, the cooling of the water indicated the existence of the shoal, which is noted in only a very few charts.
- The western shoal, which is of small extent and rocky and which has a considerable amount of dead shells upon it, is situated near the center, its depth being 29 fathoms.
- I had success using a minnow-imitation type of bait known as a shoal digger tipped with a small black and chartreuse plastic grub that was presented with a subtle jigging motion.
- To our astonishment, although a considerable distance from land, we were in shoal water the whole of the day, supposed to be a sand-bank, the water by times being quite discoloured.
- Due south from Alderney about 2 leagues, and near 3 from the isle of Sark, lies a bank, called La Chole, (from the word shoal) which has no more than 12 feet at low water, spring tides.
- The Telemaque shoal, which is supposed to exist somewhere to the southward of the Cape, but whose situation has never been ascertained, had just before been the subject of their conversation.
- In 2000, the Korean researchers did experimental tests on 'Tianchi trout' found in shoal waters that measured 85 centimeters in length and weighed 7.7 kilos, but they've never been able to test trout from the deeper waters of Tianchi Lake.
- I have stated that there was a reef to leeward: it should rather be called a shoal, since it was a sort of muddy sand-bank formed by the current of the river, and running diagonally into the sea for a long distance -- a sort of low peninsula.
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