Definitions for shoal

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shoal shoal

Spelling: [shohl]

IPA: /ʃoʊl/

Shoal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in shoal (ahlos).

Definitions for shoal

noun

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. any large number of persons or things.
4. a school of fish.

adjective

1. of little depth, as water; shallow.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to become shallow.
2. Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).

verb (used without object)

1. to become shallow or more shallow.
2. to collect in a shoal; throng.

Origin of shoal

before 900; (adj.) Middle English (Scots) shald, Old English sceald shallow; (noun and v.) derivative of the adj.

Examples for shoal

If I had an oar or somethin' to steer this clipper with, maybe we could git into shoal water.

I'd ruther have 'em high-water than shoal in the middle of the channel.

She waded forward to where the shoal ended and the deeper part began.

I pushed with all my might and, slowly and jerkily, the dingy slid off the shoal.

Juddy, there's a shoal of mullet in the bay, and I think they're foul of your screws.

shoal water, deep water, it seemed all the same to our fortunes.

We were being driven by the wind away from the shoal, but not fast enough.

The last was taken a hundred miles to the eastward of George's shoal.

The proximity of shoal water was now quite apparent on the vessel.

A roach snapped idly at him as he floundered past the shoal.