Both Uses of
shoal
in
Heart of Darkness
- The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once—somewhere—far away—in another existence perhaps.†
Chpt 2
- To the left of us there was the long uninterrupted shoal, and to the right a high, steep bank heavily overgrown with bushes.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
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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)