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▪ I. shoaling, vbl. n.1|ˈʃəʊlɪŋ|
[f. shoal v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The process of becoming shallow or more shallow; an instance of this.
1633T. James Voy. 30 The shoalding of the Western shoare. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 276 The shoaling continued until the river water prevailed. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Dec. 1/1 As the shipowner is precluded from delivering his cargo by a blockade or a sudden shoaling up of the port of discharge.
2. concr. A place where the water becomes shallow.
1574W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xxii. (1577) 61 Some sandes or daungers there be hauing fayre or good soundings or shaldings, that they may borrow of & on at their pleasure. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. 94 When they say there is very good showleing, it is meant that the water doth grow shallower, by degrees, and not suddenly. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2456/4 All the Sands, Shoalings, and Depths of Water, upon the said Coasts. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxvi. 167 The ground swell among the shoalings before the storm comes to shore.
3. Sc. Spearing fish in shallow water.
1792Statist. Acc. Scot. II. 15 This [sc. spearing fish] is also called shauling; as it is generally practised, when the tide is almost spent, and the waters turned shallow.
▪ II. shoaling, vbl. n.2
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