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

shoaled11 shoaler10 shoalest11 shoaliness13 shoaling12 shoalings13 shoalness12 shoals9

Words that contain SHOAL

shoals9 shoaly12 shoaled11 shoaler10 shoalest11 shoalier11 shoaling12 shoaliest12 shoalings13 shoalness12 shoalwise15 shoaliness13 shoalnesses14 shoalinesses15

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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