Definition of "shoalness" []

• The state of being shoal; shallowness. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher."
• "The channel had become narrow and shoal, and as I was not prepared for so critical a navigation, the further examination was given up, and we bore up to coast along the eastern shore; but, from the shoalness of the water, we were obliged to sail at so great a distance that its continuity was by no means distinctly traced."
• "The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water."