To: Cicero
Fish travel in schools, not shoals.
15 posted on
02/21/2004 12:46:00 PM PST by
tlrugit
To: tlrugit
The writer is correct.
16 posted on
02/21/2004 1:50:27 PM PST by
cyborg
To: tlrugit
SHOAL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: showl
Matching Terms: Shoa, Shoad, Shoading, Shoaliness, Shoaling, shoaly, Shoar, shoat
WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [n] a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
[n] a stretch of shallow water
[n] a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
[adj] full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
[v] become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
[v] make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
18 posted on
02/21/2004 2:49:32 PM PST by
aculeus
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