Thesaurus: shoal

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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. v. t. 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.
8. n. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
9. n. a stretch of shallow water
10. n. a large group of fish
11. v. make shallow
12. v. become shallow