All 4 Uses of
shoal
in
The Jungle Book
- This time he went westward, because he had fallen on the trail of a great shoal of halibut, and he needed at least one hundred pounds of fish a day to keep him in good condition.
Chpt 7. (definition 1) *shoal = large group (of fish)
- Then he jumped like a cat, for he saw huge things nosing about in the shoal water and browsing on the heavy fringes of the weeds.
Chpt 7. (definition 2)shoal = shallow water
- Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach,
Chpt 7. (definition 2) *shoals = stretches of shallow water
- Men can't come down the cliffs, even if there were any men; and the shoals to seaward would knock a ship to splinters.
Chpt 7. (definition 2)shoals = sandbanks or other stretches of shallow water
Definitions:
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(1) (shoal as in: shoal of tuna) a large group of fish swimming together
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(2) (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)