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noun

  1. the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
  2. some particular country: my native shore.
  3. land, as opposed to sea or water: a marine serving on shore.
  4. Law. the space between the ordinary high-water and low-water mark.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or located on land, especially land along the edge of a body of water: a marine on shore duty.

noun

  1. a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.

verb (used with object), shored, shor·ing.

  1. to support by or as if by a shore or shores; prop (usually followed by up): to shore up a roof; government subsidies to shore up falling corn prices.

verb (used with object), shored, shor·ing. Scot. and North England.

  1. to threaten (someone).
  2. to offer or proffer (something).

noun

  1. Jane,1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.

noun

  1. the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or wide riverRelated adjective: littoral
    1. land, as opposed to water (esp in the phrase on shore)
    2. (as modifier)shore duty
  2. law the tract of coastland lying between the ordinary marks of high and low water
  3. (often plural) a countryhis native shores

verb

  1. (tr) to move or drag (a boat) onto a shore

noun

  1. a prop, post, or beam used to support a wall, building, ship in dry dock, etc

verb

  1. (tr often foll by up) to prop or make safe with or as if with a shore

verb

  1. Australian and NZ a past tense of shear
n.

“land bordering a large body of water,” c.1300, from an Old English word or from Middle Low German schor “shore, coast, headland,” or Middle Dutch scorre “land washed by the sea,” all probably from Proto-Germanic *skur-o- “cut,” from PIE *(s)ker- (1) “to cut” (see shear (v.)).

According to etymologists originally with a sense of “division” between land and water. But if the word began on the North Sea coast of the continent, it might as well have meant originally “land ‘cut off’ from the mainland by tidal marshes” (cf. Old Norse skerg “an isolated rock in the sea,” related to sker “to cut, shear”). Old English words for “coast, shore” were strand (n.), waroþ, ofer. Few Indo-European languages have such a single comprehensive word for “land bordering water” (Homer uses one word for sandy beaches, another for rocky headlands). General application to “country near a seacoast” is attested from 1610s.

v.

mid-14c., “to prop, support with a prop;” of obscure etymology though widespread in West Germanic; cf. Middle Dutch schooren “to prop up, support,” Old Norse skorða (n.) “a piece of timber set up as a support.” Related: Shored; shoring. Also as a noun, “post or beam for temporary support of something” (mid-15c.), especially an oblique timber to brace the side of a building or excavation.

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