shoaly
Americanadjective
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Origin of shoaly
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The numbers of turtles which were seen swimming in quiet shoaly bays passed on the road, also gave us much amusement.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
Our men strove in vain to gain the harbour; the wind overtook us, and we cast anchor in three fathoms, with two miles of shoaly water between us and the land on our lee.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
The watchful hero felt the knocks, and found The tossing vessel sail'd on shoaly ground.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Squat to the water, belching black smoke, her engines wheezing and repining, unwieldy of management, her bottom scraping every hummock of sand in all the shoaly Roads—ah, she was ugly and courageous!
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers empty, and subject to tidal influence.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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