单词 | shoaly |
释义 | shoaly (once / 231752 pages) adj WORD FAMILY shoal: shoaled, shoaling, shoals, shoaly USAGE EXAMPLESThen the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho. Elliott, James Carson, The Southern Soldier Boy—A Thousand...(2010) They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay. Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis), The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Nav...(2010) An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers empty, and subject to tidal influence. Belcher, Edward, Sir, The Sailor's Word-Book—An Alphabet...(2010) adj full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals shoaly waters Syn reefy, shelfy, shelvy shallow lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center |
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