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ed by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.

To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Collecting or running in schools or shoals. Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.

A shoal of fish. Milton.

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.

s, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.

See Shoal. [Obs.]

to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Acts xx. 26,27. Scarcity and want shall shun you. Shak.

A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.] A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.

A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand. Cook.

of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals, the depth of water, etc. -- Plane surveying. See under Plane, a. -- Topographical surveying, that branch of surveying which involves the process of ascertaining and representing upon a plane surface the contour, physical…

or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden.