Shoal: Definition and part of speech

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Shoal

  1. n. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; — said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
  2. v. i. To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
  3. a. Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
  4. n. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
  5. n. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
  6. v. i. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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