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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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... business and its residential quarters. In the one—height, narrowness, noise, monotony, dirt, sordid squalor, pretentiousness; in the other—light, space, moderation, homelikeness. The houses in the Lake Shore Drive, the Michigan Boulevard, or the Drexel Boulevard are as varied in style as the brown-stone mansions of New York are monotonous; they face on parks or are surrounded with gardens of their own; they are seldom ostentatiously large; they ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... toward the west was known to the Indians as Nipnichsen. Here they had a castle or stockade to protect them against the Sauk-hi-can-ni, the "fire workers", who dwelt on the western shore of the great river Mohican-i-tuck, and from which later came that delectable fire-water known as "Jersey lightning," against which no red man is ever known to have raised a hand. In later days three small American ...
— The New York and Albany Post Road • Charles Gilbert Hine

... be nourished in the wild, Deep in the unpruned forest, 'midst the roar Of Cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington? Has earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore?" ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... passengers were at any of the landings they had to go out in a boat, the steamer stopping and taking them on board. I was contemplating my new boat, and wondering whether I could make it stronger or improve it in any part, when two men with trunks came down to the shore in carriages, and looking at the different boats, singled out ...
— The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln • Wayne Whipple

... the gloom 430 Of Erebus; the sun is blotted out From heav'n, and midnight whelms you premature. He said, they, hearing, laugh'd; and thus the son Of Polybus, Eurymachus replied. This wand'rer from a distant shore hath left His wits behind. Hoa there! conduct him hence Into the forum; since he dreams it night Already, teach him there that it is day. Then answer'd godlike Theoclymenus. I have no need, Eurymachus, of guides 440 To lead ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer


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