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REEFS |
Shoals |
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SHOALY |
Full of shoals, or shallow places. |
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SCHOOLING |
Collecting or running in schools or shoals. |
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CONDER |
One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker. |
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SHOAL |
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where
it shoals. |
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SEA CHART |
A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands,
shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated. |
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BALK |
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore,
the direction taken by the shoals of herring. |
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SHUN |
To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to
escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. |
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SHIPWRECK |
The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or
other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals,
etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. |
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BALKER |
A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the
shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which
way they pass; a conder; a huer. |
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HYDROGRAPHY |
...termination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet
of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals,
with ... |