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:
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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.
