Shore

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- imp. of Shear.

II. Shore ·vt To set on shore.

III. Shore ·- of Shear.

IV. Shore ·noun A Sewer.

V. Shore ·vt The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

VI. Shore ·vt To support by a shore or shores; to Prop;

— usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

VII. Shore ·noun 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.

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