Usually means: Shallow area in a waterbody.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoal: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoal, shoal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoal, shoal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shoal, shoal: Wordnik
  8. shoal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shoal: Wiktionary
  10. shoal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shoal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shoal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shoal: Dictionary.com
  14. shoal (1), shoal (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shoal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shoal (Fish), Shoal (disambiguation), Shoal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shoal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shoal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shoal: Rhymezone
  20. Shoal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shoal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shoal: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shoal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shoal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shoal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoal (Fish): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoal (Fish), shoal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoal: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. shoal: Master Mariner
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shoaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now rare) Shallow.
noun:  A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
noun:  A shallow in a body of water.
verb:  To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
verb:  (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
verb:  To become shallow.
noun:  Any large number of persons or things.
noun:  (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
verb:  To collect in a shoal; to throng.

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