shoalyadj.
/ˈʃəʊli/, U.S. /ˈʃoʊli/ Full of shoals or shallows.
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shelf-spoiled1627
shallowy1890
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xv. 242 [The river] hasting to his fall, his sholy grauell scowr's.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 361 The watchful Heroe felt the knocks; and found The tossing Vessel sail'd on shoaly Ground.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4378/3 The Place..being very narrow and shoally.
1820 Q. Rev. 23 77 The basin is navigable, but shoally for about eight miles.
1892 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 570 To steer in a shoaly sea.
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