Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to
LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel.
skor?a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut
off.] 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 (?), imp. of
Shear. Chaucer.
Shore (?), v. t. To set on
shore. [Obs.] Shak.
Shore, n. [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.] 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. [imp. & p.
p. Shored (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Shoring.] [OE. schoren. See Shore a prop.]
To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with
up; as, to shore up a building.
Shore, n. A sewer. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.]