Results for shore

Definitions of shore:

part of speech: verb transitive

To support by a prop: usually with up.

part of speech: noun

A prop or support for the side of a building, or to keep a vessel in dock steady on the slips.

part of speech: noun

SHORER.

part of speech: noun

The coast or land adjacent to the sea, a river, or lake.

part of speech: noun

A support; one of the stocks by which a ship is supported on dry land, or by which a wall or building is temporarily supported.

part of speech: noun

The coast or land bordering on the sea, etc.; a prop or support.

part of speech: verb

To support with a prop or buttress temporarily.

part of speech: noun

The land adjacent to a sea or ocean, or to a great lake or river; the extremity where the land is broken off.

part of speech: noun

A public drain.- See Wedgwood.

part of speech: verb transitive

To prop.

Usage examples for shore:

• He looked at the shore "Men, Women, and Boats", Stephen Crane

• Scarcely a word had been spoken from the time they first reached the shore "A Chapter of Adventures", G. A. Henty

• It was full from shore to shore "The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories", George MacDonald

• " I suppose that is true," says the old man; but he went back to the shore with a heavy heart. "Old Peter's Russian Tales", Arthur Ransome