SHOAL

noun a sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

2. shoal ·adj having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.

3. shoal ·vi to become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.

4. shoal ·noun a place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, ·etc., is shallow; a shallow.

5. shoal ·noun a great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng;

— said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.

6. shoal ·vi to assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.

7. shoal ·vt 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.