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A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said
especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. |
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To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes
shoaled about the place. |
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Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. |
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A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc.,
is shallow; a shallow. |
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A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. |
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To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where
it shoals. |
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To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more
shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that
which is less deep. |