1. shoal - Noun
2. shoal - Adjective
3. shoal - Verb
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe heavy bridge confines your stream, Through which the barges toil, Smoke has shut out the sun's glad beam, Thy waves have caught the soil. On-on-though weariness it be, By shoal and barrier cross'd, Till thou hast reach'd the mighty sea, And there art wholly lost. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
That but this blow, Might be the be-all and end end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. William Shakespeare
Love is the rock of youth and the shoal of old age. Sicilian Proverb
A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain. Chinese Proverb
a school of small glittering fish swam by Source: Internet
the lake shallowed over time Source: Internet