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shory

shory adjective: lying near the shore.

Adjective

shory (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Lying near the shore.
    • And that as firme as any brazen wall / And more then rocks vpon the shorie sandes1598, Jorge de Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, part 2, chapter 7, page 363
    • […]at the same time were made the shory Rocks and Mountains which are the bars and boundaries of the Sea.1697, Thomas Burnet, The theory of the earth containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation...

Origin of shory

From shore + -y.

Questions about shory

What does shory mean?
Shory means lying near the shore.
What part of speech is shory?
Shory is an adjective.

Words near shory in the dictionary

  1. shorty shorts
  2. Shortz
  3. Shortzian
  4. short‐term
  5. Shorwell
  6. shory
  7. Shorzha
  8. shos
  9. Shosh
  10. Shosha
  11. Shoshana

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