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Shallow

shallow

1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. (bacon) Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. (Dryden)

2. (Science: zoology) The rudd.


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