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"Shoal" Definition

noun

A large group; a crowd.
A large school of fish or other marine animals.
A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.
A shallow place in a body of water.
A sandbank or sandbar that makes the water shallow.

adjective

Having little depth; shallow.

verb-intransitive

To become shallow: The river shoals suddenly here from eight to two fathoms.
To come together in large numbers; throng.

verb-transitive

To come or sail into a shallower part of.
To make shallow: The approach to the harbor was shoaled in the storm.

verb

To become shallow.
To come to a shallow or less deep part of.
To cause to become shallow or less deep.

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