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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 1003 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHORE , a word meaning (1) the margin or edge of See also:

land when bordering on a large piece of See also:water, whether of an ocean or See also:sea or See also:lake, " See also:bank " taking its See also:place when applied to the See also:borders on either See also:side of a See also:river; for the legal aspect of the " shore," i.e., the space bordering on tidal See also:waters between high and See also:low water See also:mark, see See also:FORESHORE; (2) a prop of See also:timber, used as a support, temporary or permanent, for a See also:building when threatening to fall or during reconstruction (see See also:SHORING), and more particularly a timber support placed against a See also:ship's side when building on the See also:stocks, or when ready for launching on the slips; the props which are the final supports knocked away at the mcment of launching are called the " See also:dog-shores," one of the very numerous uses of " dog " for See also:mechanical devices of many kinds (see SHIP-BUILDING). Both words are to be derived ultimately from the same source, viz., the See also:root seen in " shear," to cut off; in sense (I) the word means a See also:part cut or " shorn " off, an edge, and appears in M.Eng. as schore, from O. Eng. sceran, to cut, shear; in sense (2) it is of Scandinavian origin and is an See also:adaptation of the Nor. shores, a piece of timber cut off to serve as a prop or support.

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