(1):
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; - said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(2):
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(3):
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(4):
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(5):
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(6):
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(7):
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.