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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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... and Canadian Southern," he crooned lovingly. "The child of my heart! The district attorney kept all the rest—as evidence, he claimed, but some day you'll see he'll bring an action against the Lake Shore or the New York Central based on these bonds. Yes, sir! They're ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train
... this diary are supplied by the information contained in the maps, with the exception of the last two days on the shore of the Gulf.] ...
— Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia • William John Wills
... were the farthest advance which the Greek mind made in that direction. The Epicurean said: "Seek not to be happy, but rather to escape unhappiness; strong happiness is always linked with pain; therefore hug the safe shore, and do not tempt the deeper raptures. Avoid disappointment by expecting little, and by aiming low; and above all do not fret." The Stoic said: "The only genuine good that life can yield a man is the free possession of his own soul; all other goods are lies." Each of these philosophies ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... Mr. Vanderbilt had acquired the Hudson River Railroad, he secured the control of the New York Central, which ran from Albany to Buffalo. This control was continued through the Lake Shore on one side of the lakes and the Michigan Central on the other to Chicago. Subsequently the Vanderbilt System was extended to Cincinnati and St. Louis. It was thus in immediate connection with the West and Northwest centering in Chicago, and the Southwest at Cincinnati and St. Louis. ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew
... consecrated to the archangel Michael two churches near Byzantium, one was at Anaplous, on the Bosphorus, the other on the opposite shore at Brochoi. This second church replaced a temple that had, according to tradition, been founded by the Argonauts, and was called the Sosthenion. According to John Malala, Constantine slept in the temple and asked that he might be instructed in dream to whom the church ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould


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