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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, noun
1. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. --Mortimer.
Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. --Shak.
2. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, noun [AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude, crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See {Skill}, and cf. {School}. of fishes.] A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. ''Great shoals of people.'' --Bacon.
Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. --Waller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shoaled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoaling}.] To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. --Chapman.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, adjective [Cf. {Shallow}; or cf. G. scholle a clod, glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a multitude.] Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, verb (used without an object) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoal \Shoal\, verb (used with an object) 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. --Marryat.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shoal
noun
1: a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
2: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shallow}]
3: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: {school}]
verb
1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shallow}]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shallow}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "shoal": a mass of, a world of, ankle-deep, army, bank, bar, barrier, bevy, bunch, cloud, clutter, colony, coral heads, coral reef, covey, cursory, depthless, drift, drive, drove, epidermal, flat, flight, flock, flocks, ford, gam, gang, hail, herd, hive, hook, host, ironbound coast, jam, jejune, kennel, knee-deep, large amount, ledges, lee shore, legion, light, litter, lots, many, masses of, mob, muchness, multitude, nest, not deep, numbers, on the surface, pack, pitfall, plurality, pod, pride, quantities, quicksands, quite a few, reef, rockbound coast, rocks, rout, ruck, sandbank, sandbar, sands, school, scores, shallow, shallow-rooted, shallows, shelf, shoal water, shoals, skin-deep, skulk, slight, sloth, spit, superficial, surface, swarm, thin, throng, tidal flats, tidy sum, trip, trivial, troop, undercurrent, undertow, unprofound, wetlands, worlds of
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