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underˈshore, v.
[under-1 4 a. Cf. Du. and Flem. onderschoren.]
1. trans. To prop up; to support or strengthen with shores. Also in fig. context.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xix. 47 Ne were hit vnder-shored, certes hit sholde nat stande. c1440Promp. Parv. 511/1 Vndersettyn, or vnderschoryn, fulcio, suffulcio. 1532More Confut. Tindale iii. Wks. 473/2 He sheweth himself as wise, as one that lest hys rotten house should fall, wold..pull vp ye groundsel to vndershore the sides with the same. 1583H. Howard Defensative B iij b, A sillye proppe to vndershore the ruines of olde Adams walles. 1608Topsell Serpents 72 To vnder-shore the ruinous walls. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 129 Undershore it with Levers made of strong beams. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 706 To undershore, to support or raise a thing by putting a spar or prop under it.
2. fig. To support, strengthen, sustain.
c1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) 327 Yf ye wyll vnder⁓shore Hys croked old age. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxvii. 34 The faithful..being undershored by him should not suffer themselves too bee drawen hither and thither. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xviii. xl. 729 The cittizens of Babilon..know not which to beleeue. But we haue a diuine historie to vnder-shore vs. 1665Bunyan Holy Citie Pref. p. iv, Here is neither paint to adorn thy wrinkled face, nor Crutch to uphold or undershore thy shaking, tottering, staggering Kingdom of Rome. |