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  1. of Shear
  2. imp. of Shear.
  3. n. A sewer.
  4. n. A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
  5. v. t. To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
  6. v. t. The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
  7. v. t. To set on shore.
  8. n. the land along the edge of a body of water
  9. n. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
  10. v. serve as a shore to
  11. v. arrive on shore
  12. v. support by placing against something solid or rigid