SHORE

shore, shoring

(noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

shore

(noun) the land along the edge of a body of water

land, set ashore, shore

(verb) arrive on shore; “The ship landed in Pearl Harbor”

shore

(verb) serve as a shore to; “The river was shored by trees”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Shore

A topographic surname.

Anagrams

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer

Etymology 1

Noun

shore (plural shores)

Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

(from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

Usage notes

• Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.

• Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.

• River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.

Hyponyms

• (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

(obsolete) To set on shore.

Etymology 2

Noun

shore (plural shores)

A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

(transitive, without up) To provide with support.

(usually, with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).

Synonyms

• (without up): reinforce, strengthen, support, buttress

• (with up): prop up, bolster

Etymology 3

Verb

shore

simple past tense of shear

Etymology 4

Noun

shore (plural shores)

(Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.

Etymology 5

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

(Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.

(Scotland, archaic) To offer.

Anagrams

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer

Source: Wiktionary

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Shore,

Definition: imp. of Shear. Chaucer.

Shore, n.

Definition: A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Shore, n. Etym: [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off.]

Definition: 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. [Written also shoar.]

Shore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shored; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoring.] Etym: [OE. schoren. See Shore a prop.]

Definition: To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

Shore, n. Etym: [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t.]

Definition: The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. Shak. The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. Spenser. In shore, near the shore. Marryat.

– On shore. See under On.

– Shore birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.

– Shore crab (Zoöl.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.

– Shore lark (Zoöl.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark.

– Shore plover (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.

– Shore teetan (Zoöl.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]

Shore, v. t.

Definition: To set on shore. [Obs.] Shak.

SHEAR

Shear, v. t. [imp. Sheared or Shore (;p. p. Sheared or Shorn (; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] Etym: [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski, Gr. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.]

1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.

2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. Shak.

3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] Jamieson.

4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

5. (Mech.)

Definition: To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Shear, n. Etym: [AS. sceara. See Shear, v. t.]

1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. On his head came razor none, nor shear. Chaucer. Short of the wool, and naked from the shear. Dryden.

2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. After the second shearing, he is a two-sher ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing. Youatt.

3. (Engin.)

Definition: An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.

4. (Mech.)

Definition: A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine.

– Shear hulk. See under Hulk.

– Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

Shear, v. i.

1. To deviate. See Sheer.

2. (Engin.)

Definition: To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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