Of water, etc.: Not deep; = shallow, adj.1 1.

A place where the water is of little depth; a shallow; a sandbank or bar.

A ridge or raised shelf of sand or other soft material on a seabed or riverbed, typically rising above or lying just below the surface; a large…

A shoal, shallow place.

A sandbank in the sea or river rendering the water shallow and dangerous. Also loosely applied to a submerged ledge of rock.

Chiefly plural. A nearly level tract, over which the tide flows, or which is covered by shallow water; a shallow, shoal.

A shallow place in a river.

(a) A tract of shallow water. (b) Used (like Latin vadum) for: The sea (rare). (c) poetic. A stream, current (primarily with reference to passage)…

A shallow part of a piece of water, of the sea, of a lake or river; shallow water; a shallow place.

concrete. A place where the water becomes shallow.

plural. Shallows.

= shelf, n.2 Also in combination †shelveflat.

Any of various natural formations resembling a bridge, such as a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses, a ridge of rock, sand…

A shoal or sandbank.

? A shoal. Perhaps only plural the name of a shoal off Portland Bill (hence Cook's use in quot. 1769).

A shoal in a river-bed. Obsolete. rare.

shallow water where poling or punting is possible.

(a) a shoal of fish in the sea; (b) a shoal or bank in the sea.