shoalness

shoalness

(ˈʃəʊlnəs)
n
(of water) the state of being shallow; shallowness
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By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher.
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The shoalness of the coast keeps the heavy line of pressure at a considerable distance from the beach.
Where the [coast] takes a southerly or easterly trend, the shoalness of the water keeps the line of grounded ice far to seaward, leaving a fine smooth space inside.
A most inhospitable coast: the report of Lieutenant William Hobson's 1859 search for the Franklin expedition on King William Island
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