Definition of Shore

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Definition of Shore

Shore

of Shear

imp. of Shear.

A sewer.

A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.

To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

To set on shore.

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Shore Quotations

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Al Capone

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Virgil

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike

Shore Translations

shore in Afrikaans is oewer, kus
shore in Danish is bred, kyst
shore in Dutch is kust, wal, boord, oever, kant
shore in Finnish is ranta
shore in French is riverain, parages, bord, rive, borde
shore in Italian is sponda, costa
shore in Portuguese is margem, costa
shore in Spanish is orilla, costa, ribera

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