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Shore   /ʃɔr/   Listen
Shore

noun
1.
The land along the edge of a body of water.
2.
A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support.  Synonym: shoring.
verb
1.
Serve as a shore to.
2.
Arrive on shore.  Synonyms: land, set ashore.
3.
Support by placing against something solid or rigid.  Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up.



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"Shore" Quotes from Famous Books



... by their wives, rode upon the logs, a couple sitting on the end of each cross arm. These were accompanied by Hasjelti, Hostjoghon, and two Naaskiddi, who walked on the banks to ward the logs off from the shore. Hasjelti carried a squirrel skin filled with tobacco from which to supply the gods on their journey. Hostjoghon carried a staff ornamented with eagle and turkey plumes and a gaming ring with two humming ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various
... happened to the fire which they presumably carried with them.) They now rose into regions of cloud, where they became covered with hoar frost and also stone deaf. At 3 a.m. they were off the coast of Istria, once more battling with the waves till picked up by a shore boat. The balloon, relieved of their weight, then flew away ...
— The Dominion of the Air • J. M. Bacon
... be touched, but which could appear and disappear to mortal eyes; in the room at Emmaus, or in a closed room filled with his disciples; could be touched, yet vanish away; could eat with them on the sea shore, and could ascend to heaven from the mount. Thus it was foretold by the prophet and reiterated by the apostle—"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... have seen America," he said to himself, thoughtfully. "I suppose I ought to feel a patriotic fervor about setting foot once more on my native shore, but I don't believe in nonsense. I would be content to live in Europe all my life, if my uncle's fortune were once in my possession. I am his sole heir, but he persists in holding on to his money bags, and limits me to a paltry ...
— The Cash Boy • Horatio Alger Jr.
... life that in the end they don't seem strange. I have always heard them. Those things you know about people who have the second sight. And about the seals who change themselves into men and come on shore and fall in love with girls and marry them. They say they go away now and then, and no one really knows where but it is believed that they go back to their own people and change into seals again, because they must plunge and riot about ...
— The White People • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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