| • | 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. |