Shoal vs Sheal - What's the difference?
shoal | sheal |
Shallow.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.19:
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
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, title= * Dryden
A shallow in a body of water.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
To become shallow.
Any large number of persons or things.
* Francis Bacon
A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
* Waller
As nouns the difference between shoal and sheal
is that shoal is a sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow while sheal is a shell or pod.As verbs the difference between shoal and sheal
is that shoal is to arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area while sheal is to shell (remove husks, shells etc.As an adjective shoal
is shallow.shoal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) schold, scholde, from (etyl) . Compare (shallow).Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- shoal water
- But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals .
- The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their spawn.
- Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, / And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour.
Synonyms
* (sandbank) sandbar, sandbankVerb
(en verb)- A ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. — Marryat.
- The colour of the water shows where it shoals .
Etymology 2
1570, presumably from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- great shoals of people
- Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.