shoal
(now rare) Shallow.
But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
A shallow in a body of water.
To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
To become shallow.
Any large number of persons or things.
(collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
To gather in a large group; to throng.
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