Shore

imp. of shear. [Obs.] This heard Geraint, and grasping at his sword, . . . Shore through the swarthy neck. Tennyson.

[A-S. score, from sceran, sciran, to shear, divide; O. D. schoore, schoor.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as a sea or lake.

The warlike Moor, Othello, is come on shore. Shak.

Sea-shore (Law), the space between ordinary high-water mark and low-water mark; beach; flats. Hale. Shaw.

n. [L. Ger. schore, D. schoor, O. D. schoore, Icel. skorda.] A prop, or timber, placed as a brace or support on the side of a building or other thing. [Also shoar.]

n. A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

[imp. & p. p. SHORED; p. pr. & vb. n. SHORING.] To support by a post or buttress; to prop;—usually with up; as, to shore up a building.