Shoal

Adjective

 * 1)  Shallow.
 * 2) * 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.19:
 * But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.

Noun

 * 1) A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.

Synonyms

 * sandbar, sandbank

Verb

 * 1) To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
 * 2) To cause a shallowing.

Noun

 * 1) Any large number of persons or things.
 * 2) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

Synonyms

 * school

Verb

 * 1) To collect in a shoal; to throng.

Thesaurus
a mass of, a world of, ankle-deep, army, bank, bar, barrier, bevy, bunch, cloud, clutter, colony, coral heads, coral reef, covey, cursory, depthless, drift, drive, drove, epidermal, flat, flight, flock, flocks, ford, gam, gang, hail, herd, hive, hook, host, ironbound coast, jam, jejune, kennel, knee-deep, large amount, ledges, lee shore, legion, light, litter, lots, many, masses of, mob, muchness, multitude, nest, not deep, numbers, on the surface, pack, pitfall, plurality, pod, pride, quantities, quicksands, quite a few, reef, rockbound coast, rocks, rout, ruck, sandbank, sandbar, sands, school, scores, shallow, shallow-rooted, shallows, shelf, shoal water, shoals, skin-deep, skulk, slight, sloth, spit, superficial, surface, swarm, thin, throng, tidal flats, tidy sum, trip, trivial, troop, undercurrent, undertow, unprofound, wetlands, worlds of

Etymology 1
sceald:, from. Compare shallow:.

Etymology 2
1570, presumably from *undefined:, from  sceolu:, scolu:, from, from. Cognate with skoal:,  schole:,  school:.

Adjective

 * Croatian: pličina
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * French: banc de sable


 * German:
 * Norwegian: sandbanke
 * Russian: мелководье, отмель,
 * Spanish: bajío

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Croatian: plova
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Irish: ráth
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ławica
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * halos
 * shola
 * solah