Definitions for shoaly

shoaly shoal·y

Spelling: [shoh-lee]
IPA: /ˈʃoʊ li/

Shoaly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in shoaly (ahlosy).

Definitions for shoaly

adjective

  1. full of shoals or shallows.

Origin of shoaly

First recorded in 1605-15; shoal1 + -y1

Examples for shoaly

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers empty, and subject to tidal influence.

By feeding upon these for several days it had quite glutted itself, having made for itself a channel in the shoaly water.

They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.

Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.

Word Value for shoaly
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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