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shoaly, a.|ˈʃəʊlɪ|
Also 7 sholy, 8–9 shoally.
[f. shoal n.1 + -y.]
Full of shoals or shallows.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xv. 235 [The river] hasting to his fall, his sholy grauell scowr's. 1697Dryden æneid v. 1130 The watchful Heroe felt the knocks: and found The tossing Vessel sail'd on shoaly Ground. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4378/3 The Place..being very narrow and shoally. 1820Q. Rev. XXIII. 77 The basin is navigable, but shoally for about eight miles. 1892Cornhill Mag. Dec. 570 To steer in a shoaly sea. |