Shoal

Shoal

(1):

(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; - said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.

(2):

(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.

(3):

(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.

(4):

(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.

(5):

(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

(6):

(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.

(7):

(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.