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Definition shore

Etymology 1

From Middle English schore, from Old English *s?ora (attested as s?or- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English s?ieran (“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”).

Noun

shore (plural shores)

  1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
  2. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

  1. (obsolete) To set on shore.

shore (plural shores)

  1. A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.
Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

  1. (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
  2. (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).

Etymology 3

See shear.

Verb

shore

  1. simple past tense of shear

Etymology 4

Noun

shore (plural shores)

  1. (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.

Etymology 5

Perhaps a form of score, or another form of sure, equivalent to assure.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.
  2. (Scotland, archaic) To offer.

Results 414 Words with the letters SHORE

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EROS 4
HERO 6
HERS 6
HOER 6
HOES 6
HOSE 6
ORES 4
RESH 6
RHOS 6
ROES 4
ROSE 4
SHOE 6
SORE 4
3 letter words with the letters SHORE 
ERS 3
HER 5
HES 5
HOE 5
OES 3
OHS 5
ORE 3
ORS 3
OSE 3
RES 3
RHO 5
ROE 3
SER 3
SHE 5
2 letter words with the letters SHORE 
EH 4
ER 2
ES 2
HE 4
HO 4
OE 2
OH 4
OR 2
OS 2
RE 2
SH 4
SO 2

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