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shoal

1[shohl]
–noun
1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, esp. one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
–adjective
3. of little depth, as water; shallow.
–verb (used without object)
4. to become shallow or more shallow.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cause to become shallow.
6. Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).

Origin:
bef. 900; (adj.) ME (Scots) shald, OE sceald shallow; (n. and v.) deriv. of the adj.


1. shallow, rapid, riffle. 2. reef.
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shoal   (shōl)  Pronunciation Key 
A submerged mound or ridge of sediment in a body of shallow water.
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