SHORE
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Shore (?), imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
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Shore, n. A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor&unr_;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, 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, 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 (Zo&ö;l.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zo&ö;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&ö;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&ö;l.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. -- Shore teetan (Zo&ö;l.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]
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Shore (?), v. t. To set on shore. [Obs.] Shak.
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