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to shoal
To lounge about lazily. You hurled up to the counter as if you were shoaling through the market, ac...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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.
To lounge about lazily. You hurled up to the counter as if you were shoaling through the market, ac...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.