shoading

[Eng. shoad; -ing.] [SHOAD.] shōal (1), *shole, (1), s. [The same word as Mid. Eng. scole a school (q. v.); Dut. school =a school, a shoal; Irish sgol.] A large number a embled; a great quantity; a throng, a crowd. " Shoals of artisans, Were from their daily labor turned adrift." Words worth: Excursion , bk. i. shōal (2), *shōle (2), *shold, s . & a . [Icel. skjálgr =oblique, awry, hence applied to a sloping or shelving shore; Sw. dial. skjalg =oblique, slant, wry; O. Sw.skælg ; Ger. scheel , schel.] A. As subst .: A place where the water of a river, lake, sea, ., is shallow or of little depth; a shallow, a sandbank, a bar; more particularly, among seamen, a sandbank which becomes dry at low IMG:content-1362.png:[blocks in formation] Nautical: To cause to become more shallow; to move or pa from a greater to a le depth of. "We suddenly shoaled our water."- Cook : Third Voyage , bk. v., ch. v.