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Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..

Shoaled :: Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoa.

Overfall :: Overfall (n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal..

Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow..

Shun :: Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice..

School :: School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish..

Shallow :: Shallow (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

Spit :: Spit (n.) 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..

Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass..

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Shoal :: Shoal (v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep..

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring..

Sea Chart :: Sea chart () A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated..

Shoal :: Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place..

Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

Shoaly :: Shoaly (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places..

Shoaling :: Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.

Shallow :: Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

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