A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
'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.
From 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 (“parc...
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A shallow in a body of water.
The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to sun themselves in and to lay their spawn.
Any large number of persons or things.
Shoals of tourists
To collect in a shoal; to throng.
The fish shoaled about the place.