shoal

The Sailor's Word-Book

A danger formed by sunken rocks, on which the sea does not break; but generally applied to every place where the water is shallow, whatever be the ground. (See flat shoal, shole, or schole.) Also, denotes a great quantity of fishes swimming in company squamosæ cohortes. Also, a vessel is said to shoalen, or shoal her water, when she comes from a greater into a less depth.

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