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shoaly

[ shoh-lee ]

adjective

, shoal·i·er, shoal·i·est.
  1. full of shoals shoal or shallows.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shoaly1

First recorded in 1605–15; shoal 1 + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.

They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.

An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers empty, and subject to tidal influence.

By feeding upon these for several days it had quite glutted itself, having made for itself a channel in the shoaly water.

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