(shôr, shōr) noun
1. The coast or land adjacent to an ocean, sea, lake, or large river. ♦ Collateral adjective: littoral.
2. Law The ground between the ordinary high–water mark and low–water mark. See synonyms under BANK¹, LAND, MARGIN.
—in shore Near or toward the shore.
—v.t. shored, shor·ing
1. To set on shore.
2. To surround as with a shore. [ME schore; origin uncertain]

(shôr, shōr) v.t. shored, shor·ing
To prop, as a wall, by a vertical or sloping timber: usually with up.
—noun A beam set endwise as a prop, as against the side of a building, a ship on the stocks, etc., especially as a temporary support. See illustration under DRYDOCK. [Cf. Du. schoor prop, ON skordha stay]

(shôr, shōr)
Archaic past tense of SHEAR.