Both Uses of
shoal
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- CHAPTER XV A FEW minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.†
Chpt 15 *
- After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until they were naked, and then continued the frolic far away up the shoal water of the bar, against the stiff current, which latter tripped their legs from under them from time to time and greatly increased the fun.†
Chpt 16
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)