The Only Use of
shoal
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- "These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds--regular dead-beats. There, now we're over the worst of it, you can stand the rest middling easy."
It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along,Chpt 28shoal = shallow
Definitions:
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(shoal as in: run aground on a shoal) an area of shallow water -- especially a navigation hazard, and often caused by a deposit of sand (sandbank)
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(2)
(shoal as in: shoal of tuna) a large group -- typically of fish swimming togetherTypically, the expression, school of fish is preferred when fish synchronize their swimming. Shoal is preferred when fish stay together in a looser manner.