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.

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

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

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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.]

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

--Shak.

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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.

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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.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)