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Shore
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- 1 Pronunciation spelling of sure. Scotland, alt-of, archaic, pronunciation-spelling, transitive
- 1 A topographic surname from Middle English.
- 2 A place in England:; A suburb of Littleborough, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9216).
- 3 A place in England:; A hamlet near Cornholme in Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD9126).
- 1 Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
"lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore"
- 2 A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
"The shores stayed upright during the earthquake."
- 3 A sewer. transitive
"Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe."
- 4 a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support wordnet
- 5 Land, usually near a port.
"The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships."
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- 6 the land along the edge of a body of water wordnet
- 1 To arrive at the shore intransitive, obsolete
"the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored."
- 2 Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support. transitive
"If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers."
- 3 simple past of shear form-of, past, transitive
"Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke[…]. The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass […]."
- 4 To threaten or warn unpleasant consequences (for someone); (sometimes) to threaten or warn off or scare away. Scotland, archaic, transitive
"The Gleds might pyked her at the dyke, Before the lads wad shored them off her."
- 5 support by placing against something solid or rigid wordnet
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- 6 To put ashore. obsolete, transitive
"I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again"
- 7 Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure). transitive
"My family shored me up after I failed the GED."
- 8 To threaten (to rain). Scotland, archaic, transitive
"For a' our tears and sighs are but in vain: Come, help me up; — yon sooty cloud shores rain."
- 9 arrive on shore wordnet
- 10 To offer or present (someone something). Scotland, archaic, transitive
"... a compliment kindly and decently shored, […]"
- 11 serve as a shore to wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
From Late Middle English shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms], from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.
From Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms], from Middle English shore (“a prop, a support”) (see etymology 2) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); compare Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel; to sweep”).
See shear.
Originally common-shore.
Uncertain. The word is attested in Northern English and Scots; the DSL states that schore "to threaten" is attested before 1400 (a corresponding noun schoyr is attested since 1375: "vith gret schoyr and mannasyng" in Barbour's Bruce), and suggests it might ultimately be related to Old Scots schoir "steep (of a crag)", related to shear. Alternatively, it has been suggested that it might be a variant of score or sure and related to assure.
* As an English surname, from the noun shore. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Schorr, Szor, Schauer.
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