shoal-water

The steamer "Chapala" is a flat-bottom stern-wheel boat, very like those that are common on the shallow rivers of the West; the only boats adapted to shoal-water service.

Did you know? Steamboats on Lake Chapala. 2008

The steamer "Chapala" is a flat-bottom stern-wheel boat, very like those that are common on the shallow rivers of the West; the only boats adapted to shoal-water service.

Did you know? Steamboats on Lake Chapala. 2008

At this moment our experienced capitano fancied we had got into shoal-water; the surf was seen running in foaming circles, as if in a whirlpool.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Ships cannot possibly put in to shore there because the sea itself prevents them by forming shoals for not less than thirty stades; consequently the beach at Ravenna, although to the eye of mariners it is very near at hand, is in reality very far away by reason of the great extent of the shoal-water.

Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

The first reef is on the starboard hand; part was dry, and shoal-water about.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Knowing what he was about when he left Vancouver, Hollister had brought with him a twenty-foot Hudson's Bay freight canoe, a capacious shoal-water craft with high topsides.

The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

The anchor was got up, when some of the blacks seized the painter, and others, in trying to capsize the boat, brought the gunwale down to the water's edge, at the same time grappling with the men to pull them out, and dragging the galley inshore towards the shoal-water.

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

And his shapely little body was so packed full of energy, so thrilling with vitality, that he felt himself already a sort of lord in those shoal-water domains.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

Evil he did in shoal-water and blacker sin on the deep,

The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

The anchor was got up, when some of the blacks seized the painter, and others, in trying to capsize the boat, brought the gunwale down to the water's edge, at the same time grappling with the men to pull them out, and dragging the galley inshore towards the shoal-water.

Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900