| 单词 | in or by shoals |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin or by shoals a. A large number of fish, porpoises, seals, whales, etc. swimming together; = school n.2 1. in a shoal, in or by shoals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > shoal schoolc1425 shoal1579 flote1603 sea-shoal1738 run1771 mountain1880 the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > aquatic (group of) schoolc1425 shoal1834 15791 [see sense 3a]. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 56 Sholes of fish frisking and playing. 1673 J. Milton Psalm VIII in Poems (new ed.) 142 Fish that through the wet Sea-paths in shoals do slide. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 333 Herrings offer themselves in shoals. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. viii. 141 The shoals of seals would follow the ship if you whistled. 1836 Uncle Philip's Conversat. Whale Fishery 286 The ship..came upon a large shoal of whales. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. xix. 314 As the season advances the shool, or shoal, comes nearer the shore. 1905 D. Smith Days of His Flesh l. 515 Supposing..that the stranger had skill in fisher-craft and had perhaps observed indications of a shoal, they obeyed. < as lemmas |
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