Definition of shore

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Shore (n.) 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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Cockboat :: Cockboat (n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Flux :: Flux (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux..
Midden :: Midden (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens..
Rivage :: Rivage (n.) A bank, shore, or coast..
Hydrographer :: Hydrographer (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters..
Undersail :: Undersail (v. i.) To sail alongshore.
Shore :: Shore () of Shea.
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores..
Disembark :: Disembark (v. i.) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
Sea Mud :: Sea mud () A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor..
Suraddition :: Suradanni (n.) A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like..
Lark :: Lark (n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors..
Swamped :: Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore..
Ottawas :: Ottawas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior..
Surge :: Surfy (a.) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore..
Shoar :: Shoar (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore.
Coast :: Coast (v. t.) The seashore, or land near it..
Shorer :: Shorer (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore..
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