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shoreside, shore-side, n. (a.)
a. The edge of the shore; the part either of the land or sea adjacent to the shore.
1571in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1580, 11/1 Apud lie Schoir⁓syid de Almond. 1590Webbe Trav. (Arb.) 33 Fishes..swimming neere the shore side. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. viii. §5 It is a view of delight to stand or walke on the shoare side and to see a Shippe tossed with tempest upon the sea. 1653Walton Angler i. vii[i]. 155 And if you would have this ledger bait to keep at a fixt place, undisturbed by wind or other accidents, which may drive it to the shoare side [etc.]. 1667in Extr. St. Papers rel. Friends Ser. iii. (1912) 270 Shee..left her 4 small Chilldren weeping on the shoare side. 1869Lynch Ch. & St. 19 When a larger company was gathered by the hillside, or the shoreside, there was a Church. 1885Pater Marius vi. I. 112 Every one walked down to the shore-side to witness the freighting and launching of the vessel.
b. attrib. passing into adj.
1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xiii, The bow [of the boat] had struck among the shore-side trees. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 4 Sept. 3/1 Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen, proclaimed his union's aim of a ‘march inland’—to organize all shoreside transportation and commodity handling under the stevedores. 1966Economist 25 June 1439/3 Norway makes sure of a flow of young men into the merchant service. Bachelors pay half the income tax of workers ashore; married men pay a little more, though still less than the shoreside worker. 1979D. Lowden Boudapesti 3 xxx. 160 Buildings going up... Shoreside villages, without a fishing boat in sight.
Hence as adv., to the shore, to land (rare).
1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 168 Are you coming shore-side this afternoon? 1949Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 10/2 A desolate peninsula in Venezuela, expected to become the Western Hemisphere's largest oil port, needed facilities for seamen going ‘shoreside’. |