All 4 Uses of
shoal
in
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- Then: "Oh, bother these fish!" said Lucy, for a whole shoal of small fat fish, swimming quite close to the surface, had come between her and the Sea People.†
Chpt 15
- The shoal of fish hard scattered in every direction: the People themselves were coming up to find out the meaning of this big, black thing which had come between them and the sun.†
Chpt 15
- Just before midday Lucy saw a large shoal of fishes grazing on the weed.†
Chpt 16 *
- Lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess — or perhaps a fish-herdess and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture.†
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)