1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow: The clams and mussels gathered from these shoals are the best you’ll ever find.
2. a sandbank or sandbar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.

3. of little depth, as water; shallow: The first thing these newcomers do is buy a boat and promptly get stuck in the shoal waters, which they know nothing about.

4. to become shallow or more shallow: The river significantly shoals between the old stone bridge and the bend at Tuttle’s Crossing.

5. to cause to become shallow: Shoaling the approach has effectively kept the larger vessels out of our small harbor.
6. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).

1. any large number of persons or things.
2. a school of fish: a shoal of herring;a shoal of mackerel.

3. to collect in a shoal; throng.

1. a stretch of shallow water
2. a sandbank or rocky area in a stretch of water, esp one that is visible at low water

3. to make or become shallow
4. to sail into shallower water

5. a less common word for shallow
6. (of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water

1. a large group of certain aquatic animals, esp fish
2. a large group of people or things

3. to collect together in such a group

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