shoring

Verb (1)

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive at the shore
   • the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
2. (obsolete, transitive) To put ashore.
   • I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them againc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Verb (2)

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (transitive) Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.
   • If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.1990, Christopher Gravett, Richard Hook, Medieval Siege Warfare, page 45

   Synonyms:

   buttress, reinforce, strengthen, support

2. (transitive) Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).
   • My family shored me up after I failed the GED.

   Synonyms:

   bolster, prop up

Verb (3)

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (Scotland, archaic, transitive) To threaten or warn unpleasant consequences (for someone); (sometimes) to threaten or warn off or scare away.
   • The Gleds might pyked her at the dyke, Before the lads wad shored them off her.1810, Robert-Hartley Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry. Now First Published, page 98
2. (Scotland, archaic, transitive, clouds, etc) To threaten (to rain).
   • For a' our tears and sighs are but in vain: Come, help me up; — yon sooty cloud shores rain.1733, Allan Ramsay, “A Pastoral on the death of M. Prior”, in Poems: By Allan Ramsay. With New Additions and Notes, page 210

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