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At Downend Point the leading boat will halt and lie on her oars, dose inshore while each successor pivots and spreads in echelon to starboard keeping, as nearly as may be, two fathoms' distance from her consort to port; all gradually, as the shore is approached rounding up for a simultaneous attack in line.

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  1. noun The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast.
  2. noun Land; country. Often used in the plural: far from our native shores.
  3. noun Land as opposed to water: a sailor with an assignment on shore.
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  • A bit closer to the shore was a somewhat smaller and more subdued fishing party. —  The Daily Press
  • At Downend Point the leading boat will halt and lie on her oars, dose inshore while each successor pivots and spreads in echelon to starboard keeping, as nearly as may be, two fathoms' distance from her consort to port; all gradually, as the shore is approached rounding up for a simultaneous attack in line. —  The Mayor of Troy
  • We had come, as Preston guessed, to the river, and the shore was here high; so that we looked down upon the dark little stream far below us. —  Daisy
  • I doubt not that you rest well Next day, the signal from the shore was the same as the day before, "Stand in," in answer to my repeated call for help. —  Voyage of the Liberdade
  • If the shore is at the back it may be difficult when the print is made to find the beaver at all. —  On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

coast ·  island ·  beach ·  river ·  hill ·  bank ·  road ·  cliff ·  valley ·  side ·  ocean ·  bay

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shore:   shores ·  shoring ·  shored
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  1. Middle English shore, from Old English scora; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English shoren, from shore, prop, probably from Middle Low German schōre, barrier, or Middle Dutch scōre, prop.

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  1. Early modern English also shoar; from Middle English schore, from Anglo-Saxon *score, shore (Somner, Lye, etc., without a reference) (=Middle Dutch schore, schoore, schoor, shore, alluvial land, foreland, =Middle Low German schore, schor, schare, shore, coast); prob. orig. land ‘cut off’ (cf. scoren clif, ‘shorn cliff,’ a precipice), from sceran (past participle scoren), cut, shear: see shear, and cf. score.
  2. from shore, n.
  3. Early modern English also shoar; from Middle English schore =D. schoor, a prop, =Norwegian skora, a prop, =Swedish dial. shåre, a piece of cut wood (cf. Icelandic skordha, a prop, especially under a boat, =Norwegian skorda, a prop); prob. orig. a piece ‘cut off’ of a suitable length, from Anglo-Saxon sceran (past participle scoren), cut, shear: see shear, and cf. shore.
  4. Early modern English also shoar; from Middle English schoren (=D. schoren); from shore, n.
  5. An assibilated form of score.
  6. Scots also schore, schor, schoir; perhaps an assibilated form of score, in a similar sense (cf. shore); or another form of sure, v., equivalent to assure (cf. shore, variant of sewer).
 

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