shoal
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Is shoal a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (now rare) Shallow.Examples: "shoal water"; "But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle."; "All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in."archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.Examples: "Noting the rate at which she shoals her water -[…]"transitive
noun (English)
1. (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.Examples: "c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides."; "He came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge for their sufferings."collective
Definition source: Wiktionary