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   Shoal , n. [AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude, crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See Skill, and cf. School. of fishes.] A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. “Great shoals of people.”  
   Bacon.
   
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   Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
   Waller.
   
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   Shoal, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shoaled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoaling.] To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
   Chapman.
   
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   Shoal, a. [Cf. Shallow; or cf. G. scholle a clod, glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a multitude.] Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
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   Shoal, n.
   A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
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   The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span.
   Mortimer.
   
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   Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
   And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor.
   Shak.
   
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   A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
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   The god himself with ready trident stands,
   And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands,
   Then heaves them off the shoals.
   Dryden.
   
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   Shoal, v. i. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
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   Shoal, 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.
   Marryat.
   
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