shore

noun

1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

   “lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore”

   “the fruitful shore of muddy Nile”

   “Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.”

   “Floods in the middle Yangtse were frequent in the past. The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River. But under the old regimes, the Chingkiang section (the section of the middle Yangtse between Chihchiang County in Hupeh Province and Chenglingchi in Hunan Province), the shores of the Tungting Lake and the lower reaches of the Han Shui were frequently flooded, causing great damage to the vast plain of Hupeh and Hunan.”

2. Land, usually near a port.

   “The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.”

   “The passengers signed up for shore tours.”

3. A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.

   “The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.”

4. (transitive)A sewer.

   “Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe.”

   “I need not mention the old common-shore of Rome.”

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To arrive at the shore

   “the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To put ashore.

   “I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again”

3. (transitive)Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.

   “If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.”

   “Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.”

   “These are called shored exit wounds. They are characterized by a broad, irregular band of abrasion of the skin around the exit. In such wounds the skin is reinforced, or "shored," by a firm surface at the instant the bullet exits.”

   “It must provide the same degree of protection offered by a complete shoring system. Shoring Excavations Shallow trenches can be shored using wood sheet piling braced by stringers and rakers”

4. (transitive)Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).

   “My family shored me up after I failed the GED.”

   “The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.”

   “... but his caravels were so much worm-eaten and shattered by storms that he could not reach that island, and was forced to run them on shore in a creek on the coast of Jamaica, where he shored them upright with spars”

5. (form-of, past, transitive)simple past of shear

   “Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke[…]. The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass […].”

6. (Scotland, archaic, transitive)To threaten or warn unpleasant consequences (for someone); (sometimes) to threaten or warn off or scare away.

   “The Gleds might pyked her at the dyke, Before the lads wad shored them off her.”

   “Bess flew till him […] and with her fatal Knife shored she would geld him, For peace that day.”

   “... a' the freits that were begun To shore us ill Shall, in the crackin' of a gun, Flee owre the hill.”

7. (Scotland, archaic, transitive)To threaten (to rain).

   “For a' our tears and sighs are but in vain: Come, help me up; — yon sooty cloud shores rain.”

   “[…] the cauld win' louder blew, Shorin' o' drift,[…]”

8. (Scotland, archaic, transitive)To offer or present (someone something).

   “... a compliment kindly and decently shored, […]”

adv

1. (Scotland, alt-of, archaic, pronunciation-spelling, transitive)Pronunciation spelling of sure.

name

1. A topographic surname from Middle English.
2. A place in England:
3. A place in England: