To lounge about lazily.
You hurled up to the counter as if you were shoaling through the market, according to your well known habits, stealing pig's feet to make broth of, &c.--Mathews, Puffer Hopkins, ch. 14.
·noun A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. II. Shoal ·adj Having little depth; shallow; a...
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A danger formed by sunken rocks, on which the sea does not break; but generally applied to every pla...
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