Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHAL'LOW
SHAL'LOW, n.
A shoal; a shelf; a flat; a sand-bank; any place where the water is not deep. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. – Bacon. Dash'd on the shallows of the moving sand. – Dryden.
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