Shoal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHOAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to sail into shallow water
• (of fish) form shoals
• (of water) become shallower
• To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
• To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
• 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.
• make shallow
• make or become shallow
NOUN:
• a large number of fish swimming together
• a large number of people or things
• an area of shallow water
• a submerged sandbank visible at low water.
• a hidden danger or difficulty
• A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
• A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
• A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
• a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
• a stretch of shallow water
• a large group of fish
• large number of fish swimming together
ADJECTIVE:
• shallow, also SHAUL
• (of water) shallow
• Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
• (of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to become shallow

Words related to SHOAL

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Words that contain SHOAL

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How to use SHOAL in a sentence

• Clair River, which empties into the lake of that name by several mouths, and which forms a bar or shoal on which in its natural state there is not more than 6 or 7 feet of water.
• We came upon a fine shoal of them, and for several hours had nothing to do but pull them in, one after another, as fast as we could put our hooks down.
• It was the great shoal called the Aventura, a volcanic swelling, a double submerged island, the submarine pedestal of Sicily.
• We found the wreck of the Boyd in shoal water, at the top of the harbour, a most melancholy picture of wanton mischief.
• The entrance may possibly form a convenient port, for there was no appearance of shoal water near it.
• No sooner has the door closed behind him than a shoal of clerks come tripping down on tip-toe, and others appear from the back of the house.
• Fearing to lose some of his ships in the shoal water, he was obliged to draw off, having had one midshipman killed.
• They measured out the right length of line, and let the flies drift back until they hung over the shoal, in the curly water where the two currents meet.
• This is a low sandy shoal, but without danger, also we came to anchor again in sixteen fathoms, fair by the land in the latitude of 42 degrees.
• A great part of the Richelieu River was shoal, and obstructed by rapids.
• We resumed our course to the southward at day-break next morning, but shoal water obliged us to haul more to the westward.
• The shore thence extends in a South-South-East direction for seventeen miles, in which space there is a shoal bay, beyond which we did not penetrate.
• Opposite to it is a sharp point, fronted by a shoal, and the channel is on the eastern side of the river, with thirteen feet water.
• In this latitude a shoal was reported to have been seen by a vessel bound to Sydney, from Banks Strait, in 1838.
• Bass landed near Shoal Point, to go as far back into the country as the limited time would permit.
• Very little progress was made until noon, at which time shoal water obliged us to steer westward.
• This done, they commence fishing, using for the bait a small fish with which they are previously provided, and they occasionally throw a few of these into the midst of the shoal.
• He slightly parted the grass so he could peep through, and found himself directly over a pool with a narrow shoal running out from the opposite bank.
• The shoal at any rate is there, and is pointed out to this day.
• When South Carolina seceded, Major Anderson, commanding the United States forces at Charleston, withdrew from the land forts to Fort Sumter, built on a shoal in the harbor.
• These are small rocky patches lying to eastward of Monhegan Island and northerly from the Outer Shoal.
• It has a 49 fathom shoal and the species and seasons are much the same as on the other grounds of the name.
• The shoal water over the rocky bottom WNW from the Northwest Light furnishes good cod fishing from June 10 to July 1.
• And a shoal of other little fishes put their heads out, and laughed at Mr.
• The Almiranta, not being so good a ship, could not follow him, and remained on the shoal of Mindoro until the fifth of the present month, which caused great loss.
• By this I found I was upon another shoal, and so presently steered off west half an hour, and had then 40 fathom.

Similar words containing SHO without suffix al

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