shoal
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallowA sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
» We've spotted that shoal of herring.
Wir haben den Heringsschwarm geortet. — raggione
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4 sensesA sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
Sandbank
мелково́дьеmelkovódʹje, о́тмельótmelʹ, ба́нкаbánka
a stretch of shallow water
A shallow in a body of water.
Any large number of persons or things.
Shoals of tourists
a large group of fish
(collective)A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
Examples
5 sentencesWe've spotted that shoal of herring.
deWir haben den Heringsschwarm geortet. — raggione
We've located the shoal of herring.
deWir haben den Heringsschwarm geortet. — raggione
The ship hit a shoal.
If there is a shoal or a stone under water again, it should indicate them on the map.
From each side they shoaled, / resolved and ready over sea and land / my steps to follow, where the Fates command.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from ProFrom Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”).
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