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Definitions for Shoring
[1] a number or system of shores for steadying or supporting a wall, a ship in drydock, etc.
[2] the act of setting up shores.
[3] a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
[4] to support by or as if by a shore or shores; prop (usually followed by up ): to shore up a roof; government subsidies to shore up falling corn prices.
[5] to threaten (someone).
[6] to offer or proffer (something).
[7] the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or wide river Related adjective: littoral
[8] land, as opposed to water (esp in the phrase on shore ) (as modifier ) shore duty
[9] law the tract of coastland lying between the ordinary marks of high and low water
[10] (often plural) a country his native shores
[11] (tr) to move or drag (a boat) onto a shore
[12] a prop, post, or beam used to support a wall, building, ship in dry dock, etc
[13] (tr often foll by up ) to prop or make safe with or as if with a shore
[14] Australian and NZ a past tense of shear
Words related to Shoring
beach, coast, seashore, border, bank, sand, seaboard, waterfront, riverbank, brim, embankment, margin, brink, strand, lakeshore, lakeside, shingle, coastland, seacoast, littoral
Words nearby Shoring
shoreside, shoreview, shoreward, shoreweed, shorewood, shoring, shorn, short, short account, short and sweet, short ballot
Origin of Shoring
e31325–75; Middle English (Scots ) schore < ?
Word origin for Shoring
eC15: from Middle Dutch schōre; related to Old Norse skortha prop
Synonyms for Shoring
bank, beach, border, coast, riverbank, sand, seaboard, seashore, waterfront, brim, brink, coastland, embankment, lakeshore, lakeside, littoral, margin, riverside, sands, seacoast, shingle, strand