shore : Idioms & Phrases

• . (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks.

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• near the shore. Marryat.

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• the shore on the lee side of a vessel.

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• on land; to the shore.

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• noun any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
  shore bird; limicoline bird; shorebird.
  

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• noun any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
  shore bird; limicoline bird; shorebird.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.

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• noun a boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin
  

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• (Zoöl.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.

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• noun naval service at land bases
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• noun leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
  liberty.
  

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• noun the military police of the navy
  

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• noun shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
  spruce pine; Pinus contorta; lodgepole; lodgepole pine.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.

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• noun military installation servicing naval forces
  naval installation.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). Prov. Eng.

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• verb support by placing against something solid or rigid
  prop up; shore; prop.
  
  • shore and buttress an old building

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• noun the act of propping up with shores
  propping up; shoring.
  

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• (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight.

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• (Naut.), the shore to the windward of a ship. Totten.

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