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Definition of Shoaled
1. shoal [v] - See also: shoal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoaled
Literary usage of Shoaled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies by James Horsburgh (1852)
"Abreast this river there is an extensive shoal, called Formosa Bank, on which
the Murad-bux, in 1800, shoaled to 2^ fathoms ; by the chart there are now ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1867)
"To the eastward of Christmas Island the Junk Channel has shoaled, while the spit
at the southern entrance is rapidly enlarging, an island having formed ..."
3. Bering's Voyages: An Account of the Efforts of the Russians to Determine the by Frank Alfred Golder, Leonhard Stejneger (1922)
"Frequent soundings were taken and the water shoaled to 35 fathoms. The weather
being thick, no land was seen after leaving Black Point, but at noon of the ..."
4. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the by William Edward Parry (1824)
"HENDERSON, we gradually shoaled the water from eighteen fathoms, which we had
soon after leaving our anchorage, to eight. After rounding the point, ..."
5. The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by William Watson (1893)
"She was kept away until the water shoaled to ten feet, and then brought up and kept
... The water now shoaled to eight feet, but that was what I expected. ..."
6. The British Critic: A New Review (1825)
"At six AM having quickly shoaled to nineteen, running NNW from midnight, I
shortened sail, but came to seventeen at dawn, when we discovered land bearing ..."
7. The India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies by James Horsburgh (1852)
"28th, saw the water discoloured ahead ; immediately after, got ground 30 fathoms
water on the edge of Sahul Bank ; shoaled quick, and tacked in 19 fathoms ..."
8. The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of edited by Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel (1811)
"At the next cast, we had shoaled to ten fathoms, when the anchor was ordered to
be cut away, and the ship brought up in eight fathoms, in a bottom of coarse ..."
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