📖 shore

noun1 senses

1. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
2. the land along the edge of a body of water

See also: shoring

verb2 senses

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid“shore and buttress an old building”
2. arrive on shore“The ship landed in Pearl Harbor”
3. serve as a shore to“The river was shored by trees”

See also: propprop upshore uplandset ashore

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