SHORE
\ʃˈɔː], \ʃˈɔː], \ʃ_ˈɔː]\
Definitions of SHORE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
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serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
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the land along the edge of a body of water
By Princeton University
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support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
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arrive on shore; of ships
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serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
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the land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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imp. of Shear.
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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.
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The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
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To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
By Oddity Software
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imp. of Shear.
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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.
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The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
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To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
By Noah Webster.
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The coast or land bordering on the sea, etc.; a prop or support.
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To support by a prop: usually with up.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The coast or land adjacent to the sea, a river, or lake.
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A prop or support for the side of a building, or to keep a vessel in dock steady on the slips.
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To prop.
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SHORER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To support, as a wall, by a prop of timber. See illus. in next column.
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A beam set endwise, as a prop.
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The land adjacent to an ocean, sea, lake, or large river.
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Imp. Of SHEAR, v.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo Saxon] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as a sea or lake.
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n. [Dutch, Icelandic] A prop or timber placed as a brace or support on the side of a building or other thing;—in nautical language, a prop placed beneath a ship's side or bottom for support on the stocks.
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