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Definitions for Shoal

[1] a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
[2] a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
[3] of little depth, as water; shallow.
[4] to become shallow or more shallow.
[5] to cause to become shallow.
[6] Nautical . to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).
[7] any large number of persons or things.
[8] a school of fish.
[9] to collect in a shoal; throng.
[10] a stretch of shallow water
[11] a sandbank or rocky area in a stretch of water, esp one that is visible at low water
[12] to make or become shallow
[13] (intr) nautical to sail into shallower water
[14] a less common word for shallow
[15] nautical (of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water
[16] a large group of certain aquatic animals, esp fish
[17] a large group of people or things
[18] (intr) to collect together in such a group

Words related to Shoal

reef, bar, shallow, mass, bank, sandbank

Words nearby Shoal

shnorrer, sho, shoa, shoad, shoah, shoal, shoaly, shoat, shochet, shock, shock absorber

Origin of Shoal

21570–80; earlier shole, probably < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schōle, with sound-substitution of sh- for Low German skh-; cf. school2

Word origin for Shoal

Old English scolu; related to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schōle school ²

Synonyms for Shoal

reef, bank, bar, mass, sandbank, shallow