shore > define

noun

• The land along the edge of a body of water.
• A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support.
  • synonyms: shoring

verb

• Serve as a shore to.
  • usage: "The river was shored by trees"
• Arrive on shore.
  • usage: "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
  • synonyms: land, set ashore
• Support by placing against something solid or rigid.
  • usage: "shore and buttress an old building"
  • synonyms: prop up, prop, shore up

• (v.t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
• of Shear.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To set on shore.
• (v.t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake or large river.
• imp. of Shear.
• (n.) A sewer.