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单词 shoaling
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shoalingn.

/ˈʃəʊlɪŋ/
Etymology: < shoal v.2 + -ing suffix1.
1. The process of becoming shallow or more shallow; an instance of this.
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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.
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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.
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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).

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ˈshoaling
ˈshoaling adj. growing shallow.
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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.
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ˈshoaling
ˈshoaling n.2
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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.
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