[syn: prop up, prop, shore up, shore]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shore \Shore\,
imp. of Shear. --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shore \Shore\, n.
A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Michael Cassio,
Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come shore. --Shak.
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The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. --Spenser.
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In shore, near the shore. --Marryat.
On shore. See under On.
Shore birds (Zool.), a collective name for the various
limicoline birds found on the seashore.
Shore crab (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover
(Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and
feeds on crustaceans, etc.
Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
[Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), 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.
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Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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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.
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Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--Shak.
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3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
Shear, n., 4.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shore \Shore\, v. t.
To set on shore. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shore
n 1: the land along the edge of a body of water
2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to
provide support [syn: shore, shoring]
v 1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
2: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn:
land, set ashore, shore]
3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore
and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop, shore
up, shore]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "shore":
afford support, aquatic, back, back up, balneal, bank, beach, beam,
bear, bear out, bear up, berm, board, bolster, bolster up, border,
bordure, brace, brim, brink, broadside, brow, buoy up, buttress,
carry, cheek, chop, coast, coastal, coastland, coastline, column,
cradle, crutch, cushion, deep-sea, edge, embankment, estuarine,
featheredge, finance, flange, flank, foreshore, frame, fringe,
fund, give support, grallatorial, hand, handedness, haunch, hem,
hip, hold, hold up, ironbound coast, jowl, keep, keep afloat,
keep up, labellum, labium, labrum, laterality, ledge, lend support,
lido, limb, limbus, lip, list, littoral, mainstay, maintain,
many-sidedness, marge, margin, multilaterality, natant, natatorial,
natatory, pillow, plage, planking, playa, profile, prop, prop up,
quarter, ragged edge, reinforce, rim, riparial, riparian,
riparious, riverbank, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands,
sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast,
seashore, seaside, selvage, shingle, shore up, shoreline,
shoreside, shoreward, shoulder, side, sideline, siding, skirt,
stay, strand, submerged coast, subsidize, subvention,
subventionize, support, sustain, swimming, temple, tidal,
tidewater, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning,
underset, unilaterality, upbear, uphold, upkeep, verge,
water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving,
waterfront, waterside
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
SHORE. Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river, is called the shore.
Strictly speaking, however, when the water does not ebb and flow, in a
river, there is no shore. See 4 Hill, N. Y. Rep. 375; 6 Cowen, 547; and
Seashore.