| 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. |
| 3. | of little depth, as water; shallow. |
| 4. | to become shallow or more shallow. |
| 5. | to cause to become shallow. |
| 6. | Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel). |
| shoal (shōl) Pronunciation Key
A submerged mound or ridge of sediment in a body of shallow water. |