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Foreshore   Listen
noun
foreshore  n.  The part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks.






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"Foreshore" Quotes from Famous Books



... years later, and so many strange things, thrown out from incoming ships, were cast up by the tide on this side of the river, that it was the favourite resort of the boys of the neighbourhood, especially as there was a rumour that pearls had been found in several places on the muddy foreshore. ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... upon this. So far as he could discover, the case lay thus: Of the ferry itself nothing belonged to Lady Killiow but the slipway on the near shore. The farther slipway was not precisely no-man's-land, for the foreshore belonged to the Duchy, and the soil immediately above it to Sir George Dinham; but here half a dozen separate interests came into conflict. Sir George, while asserting ownership of the land, would do nothing to repair ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Foreshore" :   geological formation, formation, seacoast, seashore



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