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noun Shore n. A sewer. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
Shore n. (Written also shoar) 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.
Shore n. 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." "The fruitful shore of muddy Nile." In shore, near the shore. Shore birds (Zool.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. Shore crab (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (Prov. Eng.)
verb Shear v. t. (past sheared or shore;past part. sheared or shorn; pres. part. shearing) 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." 3.To reap, as grain. (Scot.) 4.Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5.(Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shore v. t. (past & past part. shored; pres. part. shoring) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
Shore v. t. To set on shore. (Obs.)
Shear v. i. 2.(Engin.) 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.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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