shore

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   support by placing against something solid or rigid

   shore and buttress an old building

2. 2
   verb

   serve as a shore to

   The river was shored by trees

3. 3
   noun

   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

4. 4
   noun

   Land, usually near a port.

   The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.

5. 5
   verb

   To arrive at the shore

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

6. 6
   verb

   To put ashore.

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

7. 7
   noun

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

   The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.