shoaly

English

Etymology

shoal +‎ -y

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃəʊli/
  • Rhymes: -əʊli

Adjective

shoaly (comparative shoalier, superlative shoaliest)

  1. Full of shoals, or shallow places.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shoaly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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