shoaly

(ˈʃəʊlɪ)

adj, -lier or -liest

(of the sea) full of shoals; shallow

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Adj.

shoaly - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"

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; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"

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Going backwards we can produce 34 six-letter words: DUALLY, KNAGGY, KNARRY, KNOLLY, MEALLY, QUAGGY, QUARRY, SHAGGY, SHEAFY, SHELFY, SHELLY, SHERRY, SHOALY, SNAGGY, SNEERY, SNELLY, SNIFFY, SNUFFY, STAGGY, STARRY, STEELY, STILLY, STUFFY, STUGGY, THEALL, THEORY, WHALLY, WHEELY, WHERRY, WHIFFY, WHILLY, WHIRRY, WHOLLY, and WOOLLY.

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This little town, with no public marina, few boat ramps, a shoaly inlet, and a quiet reputation, nevertheless has a dedicated and talented core of saltwater fishermen.

Boca 's bargain blue water: this glitzy South Florida coastal town has a dirty little secret: great fishing is easy to come by

For a long time it was supposed that in a southerly, offshore direction the shoaly limestones and lagoonal dolostones of the Jaagarahu and Muhu formations were replaced by the nodular, biomicritic, and argillaceous limestones of the Sorve Formation (Aaloe 1970).

Description of the type section, cyclicity, and correlation of the Riksu Formation (Wenlock, Estonia)/Riksu kihistu (Wenlock) stratotuupse labiloike kirjeldus, tsuklilisus ja korrelatsioon/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

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