different between shoal vs sheal
shoal
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???l/, /???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English s?eald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljan? (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
Alternative forms
- sheld (dialectal)
- shaul, shawl, shauld, schald, shaud, shawd (Scotland)
- shole, shoald, shold
Adjective
shoal (comparative shoaler, superlative shoalest)
- (now rare) Shallow.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.19:
- But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.19:
Noun
shoal (plural shoals)
- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (sandbank): sandbar, sandbank
Translations
Verb
shoal (third-person singular simple present shoals, present participle shoaling, simple past and past participle shoaled)
- To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
- (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
- 1859', Matthew Fontaine Maury, Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts
- Noting the rate at which she shoals her water - […]
- 1859', Matthew Fontaine Maury, Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts
- To become shallow.
Etymology 2
1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English s?eolu, s?olu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”). Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.
Noun
shoal (plural shoals)
- Any large number of persons or things.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- great shoals of people
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park
- Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
- c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park
Synonyms
- (fish): school
Translations
Verb
shoal (third-person singular simple present shoals, present participle shoaling, simple past and past participle shoaled)
- To collect in a shoal; to throng.
- The fish shoaled about the place.
Anagrams
- HALOs, LOHAS, Sohal, halos, shola, solah
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sheal
English
Etymology 1
See shell
Noun
sheal (plural sheals)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A shell or pod.
Etymology 2
See shieling
Noun
sheal (plural sheals)
- A shieling
Verb
sheal (third-person singular simple present sheals, present participle shealing, simple past and past participle shealed)
- To shell (remove husks, shells etc)
- 1606, Shakespeare, King Lear
- That's a shealed peascod.
- 1606, Shakespeare, King Lear
- To shelter under a shieling
Anagrams
- Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, leash, selah, shale
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