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Shore   /ʃɔr/   Listen
noun
Shore  n.  A sewer. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)



Shore  n.  (Written also shoar)  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.



Shore  n.  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." "The fruitful shore of muddy Nile."
In shore, near the shore.
On shore. See under On.
Shore birds (Zool.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.
Shore crab (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.
Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (Prov. Eng.)



verb
Shore  v. t.  (past & past part. shored; pres. part. shoring)  To support by a shore or shores; to prop; usually with up; as, to shore up a building.



Shore  v. t.  To set on shore. (Obs.)



Shore  v.  Imp. of Shear.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shore" Quotes from Famous Books



... a rocky shore at evening when a great storm has suddenly gone down, leaving the waves about as high as they were while it raged? Then there is no roaring wind to dull the clamor of the tremendous sea as it lashes the long re-bellowing ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... appears to signify that there were gates in the walls attached to each of the fortresses. "At a distance of about six hundred yards, corresponding with the three stadia of Xenophon, are the ruins of a wall, which can be traced amid a dense shrubbery, from the mountains down to the sea-shore, where it terminates in a round tower." ...
— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon

... gal sudie wuz found across the bed with a pen knife in her hand. He whipped another nigger gal most to death fer fergiting to put onions in the stew. The next day she went down to the river and fer nine days they searched fer her and her body finally washed upon the shore. The master could never live in that house again as when he would go to sleep he would see the nigger standing over his bed. Then he moved to Richmond and there he stayed until a little ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Kentucky Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... in sight of a large khan outside a mud-built village on the shore. Before it was a crowd, including several soldiers. As we drew near, Rashid inquired ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... of Spezzia—the lovely, treacherous bay of Spezzia, where our English Shelley lost his gentle life! How blue those cruel waters are to-day! Bluer, by Heaven! than the sky, with scarce a ripple setting to the shore. ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards


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