(from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
Verbit
(obsolete) To set on shore.
(transitive, without up) To provide with support.
(usually, with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).
Esimerkit
lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore
the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[...]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
The seamen were serving on shore instead of in ships.
The passengers signed up for shore tours.
The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.
If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.
Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.
These are called shored exit wounds. They are characterized by a broad, irregular band of abrasion of the skin around the exit. In such wounds the skin is reinforced, or "shored," by a firm surface at the instant the bullet exits.
It must provide the same degree of protection offered by a complete shoring system. Shoring Excavations Shallow trenches can be shored using wood sheet piling braced by stringers and rakers
My family shored me up after I failed the GED.
The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.
... but his caravels were so much worm-eaten and shattered by storms that he could not reach that island, and was forced to run them on shore in a creek on the coast of Jamaica, where he shored them upright with spars