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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHORE, the old. pret. of shear. Obs.
SHORE, n. The coast or land adjacent to the sea, or to a large lake or river. This word is applied primarily to land contiguous to water; but it extends to the ground near the border of the sea or of a lake, which is covered with water. We also use the word to express the land near the border of the sea or of a great lake, to an indefinite extent; as when we say, a town stands on the shore. We do not apply the word to land contiguous to a small stream. This we call a bank.
SHORE, n. [The popular but corrupt pronunciation of sewer; a pronunciation that should be carefully avoided.]
SHORE, n. A prop; a buttress; something that supports a building or other thing.
SHORE, v.t.
1. To prop; to support by a post or buttress; usually withsup; as, to shore up a building.
2. To set on shore. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the land along the edge of a body of water
2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support [syn: shore, shoring] v
1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
2: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: land, set ashore, shore]
3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop, shore up, shore]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English *scor; akin to Middle Low German sch?r foreland and perhaps to Old English scieran to cut — more at shear Date: 14th century 1. the land bordering a usually large body of water; specifically coast 2. a boundary (as of a country) or an area within a boundary — usually used in plural <immigrated to these shores> 3. land as distinguished from the sea <shipboard and shore duty> II. noun Etymology: Middle English; akin to Middle Dutch sc?re prop, Middle Low German sch?re Date: 14th century a prop for preventing sinking or sagging III. transitive verb (shored; shoring) Date: 14th century 1. to support by a shore ; prop 2. to give support to ; brace — usually used with up <trying to shore up his claim>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 the land that adjoins the sea or a large body of water. 2 (usu. in pl.) a country; a sea-coast (often visits these shores; on a distant shore). 3 Law land between ordinary high and low water marks. Phrases and idioms: in shore on the water near or nearer to the shore (cf. INSHORE). on shore ashore. shore-based operating from a base on shore. shore leave Naut. 1 permission to go ashore. 2 a period of time ashore. Derivatives: shoreless adj. shoreward adj. & adv. shorewards adv. Etymology: ME f. MDu., MLG schore, perh. f. the root of SHEAR 2. v. & n. --v.tr. (often foll. by up) support with or as if with a shore or shores; hold up. --n. a prop or beam set obliquely against a ship, wall, tree, etc., as a support. Derivatives: shoring n. Etymology: ME f. MDu., MLG schore prop, of unkn. orig. 3. see SHEAR.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shear Shear, v. t. [imp. Shearedor Shore;p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. --Shak. 3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shore Shore, imp. of Shear. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shore 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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shore 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shore 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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shores, shoring, shored) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. The shores or the shore of a sea, lake, or wide river is the land along the edge of it. Someone who is on shore is on the land rather than on a ship. They walked down to the shore. ...elephants living on the shores of Lake Kariba... I have spent less time on shore than most men... N-COUNT: also prep N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shor:

(1) choph, always of the Mediterranean, variously translated "haven," "beach," "shore," "sea-shore," "coast," "sea coast" (Ge 49:13; De 1:7; Jos 9:1; Jud 5:17; Jer 47:7; Eze 25:16).

(2) saphah, literally, "lip"; compare Arabic shafat, "lip"; of the sand upon the seashore, a figure of multitude (Ge 22:17; Ex 14:30; Jos 11:4; Jud 7:12; 1Sa 13:5; 1Ki 4:29); the shore of the Red Sea or Gulf of `Aqabah by Ezion-geber (1Ki 9:26; 2Ch 8:17); the brink of the River Nile (Ge 41:3,17); the edge (the King James Version "brink") of the valley of Arnon (De 2:36).

(3) qatseh, literally, "end," "extremity," the uttermost part (the King James Version "shore") of the Salt Sea (Jos 15:2); qetsh ha-'arets, "the end of the earth" (Ps 46:9); compare Arabic 'aqaci-l-'ard, "the uttermost parts of the earth."

(4) cheilos, literally, "lip," "as the sand which is by the seashore" (Heb 11:12).

(5) aigialos, the beach (the King James Version "shore") of the Sea of Galilee (Mt 13:2,48; Joh 21:4); of the Mediterranean (Ac 21:5; 27:39,40).

(6) asson parelegonto ten Kreten, doubtful reading, "sailed along Crete, close in shore" (the King James Version "sailed along by Crete") (Ac 27:13).

See COAST; HAVEN; SAND.

Alfred Ely Day

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Coast, beach, strand, sea-board, sea-side, sea-coast. 2. [Written also Shoar.] Prop, support, stay, brace, buttress.

Moby Thesaurus

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