Definitions for: Shore


[n] a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
[n] the land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river)
[v] support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
[v] arrive on shore; of ships
[v] serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"



Webster (1913) Definition: Shore,
imp. of Shear. --Chaucer.


Shore, n.
A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor,
OD. schoore, Icel. skor?a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being
a piece cut off.]
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the
side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath
anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
[Written also shoar.]


Shore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shoring.] [OE. schoren. See Shore a prop.]
To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up;
as, to shore up a building.


Shore, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran,
and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin
to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t.]
The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an
ocean, lake, or large river.

Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come shore. --Shak.

The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. --Spenser.

In shore, near the shore. --Marryat.

On shore. See under On.

Shore birds (Zo["o]l.), a collective name for the various
limicoline birds found on the seashore.

Shore crab (Zo["o]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or
between tides, especially any one of various species of
grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.

Shore lark (Zo["o]l.), a small American lark ({Otocoris
alpestris}) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on
the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark
brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow
local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black
streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear
tufts. Called also horned lark.

Shore plover (Zo["o]l.), a large-billed Australian plover
(Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and
feeds on crustaceans, etc.

Shore teetan (Zo["o]l.), the rock pipit ({Anthus
obscurus}). [Prov. Eng.]


Shore, v. t.
To set on shore. [Obs.] --Shak.

Synonyms: land, prop, prop up, set ashore, shore up, shoring

See Also: arrive, beach, beam, bolster, border, bound, coast, come, formation, geological formation, geology, get, hold, hold up, lakeshore, lakeside, seacoast, sea-coast, seashore, shoreline, strand, support, sustain

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