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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Shory :: Shory (a.) Lying near the shore.
Seaboard :: Seaboard (n.) The seashore; seacoast.
Rut :: Rut (n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote..
Sea Milkwort :: Sea milkwort () A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores..
Herring :: Herring (n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities..
Longshoremen :: Longshoremen (pl. ) of Longshorema.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
Thinolite :: Thinolite (n.) A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada..
Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..
Glasswort :: Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap..
Narragansetts :: Narragansetts (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
Inshore :: Inshore (adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..
Shored :: Shored (imp. & p. p.) of Shor.
Sea Bank :: Sea bank () The seashore.
Awash :: Awash (a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it..
Stranded :: Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river..
Lurg :: Lurg (n.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches..
Samphire :: Samphire (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
Land :: Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
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