Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. 2. (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. 3. (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. 4. (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. 5. (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. 6. (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals. 7. (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.

Multi-Version Concordance Shoal (2 Occurrences) Luke 5:6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. (See RSV) Acts 27:41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves. (See RSV)