shore1
  
  n.
  - the land along the edge of a sea, lake, etc. 
▸Law  the land between ordinary high- and low-water marks.
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(also shores)
 literary a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast:
 distant shores.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - in shore
 on the water near land or nearer to land.  - on shore
 ashore; on land. 
   
  Derivative
  
    - shoreless adj.
  - shoreward adj. & adv.
  - shorewards adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. schōre; perh. rel. to shear.
 
  
    
shore2
  
  n.
 a prop or beam set obliquely against something weak or unstable as a support.
v.
 
(
often shore something up)
 support or hold up with shores.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. schore ‘prop’, of unknown origin.