Thesaurus: shore
of Shear
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- of Shear
- imp. of Shear.
- n. A sewer.
- 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.
- v. t. To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
- v. t. The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
- v. t. To set on shore.
- n. the land along the edge of a body of water
- n. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- v. serve as a shore to
- v. arrive on shore
- v. support by placing against something solid or rigid