Shal″low, n. 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. (Zoöl.) The rudd.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.