shore Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the land along the edge of a body of water
  2. noun a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
    shoring.
  3. verb serve as a shore to
    • The river was shored by trees
  4. verb arrive on shore
    set ashore; land.
    • The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
  5. verb support by placing against something solid or rigid
    shore up; prop up; prop.
    • shore and buttress an old building

WordNet

Shore
Definitions
  1. imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
Shore noun
Definitions
  1. A sewer. Obs. or Prov. Eng.
Shore noun
Etymology
OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skora, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off.
Definitions
  1. 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 transitive verb
Etymology
OE. schoren. See Shore a prop.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shored ; present participle & verbal noun Shoring
Definitions
  1. To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
Shore noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Shore transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To set on shore. Obs. Shak.

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