单词 | shoaling |
释义 | shoalingn. 1. The process of becoming shallow or more shallow; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place > becoming shoaling1633 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 30 The shoalding of the Western shoare. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 276 The shoaling continued until the river water prevailed. 1886 Pall 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. concrete. A place where the water becomes shallow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place shoal839 shoala1400 bank?1473 undeep1513 shelf1545 flat1550 vadea1552 ford1563 shallow1571 shoaling1574 ebbs1577 shelve1582 bridge1624 ballow1677 shamble1769 sharp1776 poling ground1901 sea-shoal1903 1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) xxii. 61 Some sandes or daungers there be hauing fayre or good soundings or shaldings, that they may borrow of & on at their pleasure. 1644 H. Mainwaring 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. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2456/4 All the Sands, Shoalings, and Depths of Water, upon the said Coasts. 1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xxvi. 227 The ground swell among the shoalings before the storm comes to shore. 3. Scottish. Spearing fish in shallow water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > spearing spear-fishing1601 shoaling1792 weequashing1792 gaffing1830 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmasˈshoaling ˈshoaling adj. growing shallow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [adjective] > shallow > growing shallow shoaling1859 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 82 Where like a shoaling sea the lovely blue Play'd into green. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. xix. 181 The four..set off in the boat across that rapidly shoaling bay of the lagoon. ˈshoaling ˈshoaling n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > shoal > shoaling shoaling1799 schooling1856 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 148 When the shoaling of the beluga has ceased. 1884 Publ. Opinion 12 Sept. 330/1 When this has happened during a great shoaling, the herrings have in subsequent years refused to pass over the spot. < n.1574 as lemmas |
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