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▪ I. shoring, vbl. n.1|ˈʃɔərɪŋ|
[f. shore v.1 + -ing.]
1. a. The action or an act of propping up or supporting. Also shoring up. b. concr. The shores or props with which a building, vessel, etc. is held up.
1496Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 175 The shoryng of the Soueraigne leing in the dokke. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 324 Things ready to fall, need shoaring. a1639Wotton Surv. Educ. Reliq. (1651) 316 Where young tender trees..would yet little want any after-underproppings and shoarings. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xxi. (Roxb.) 254/1 He beareth Or, a plaine wall..with a Tower vpon it Battled, with chambers conioyned therevnto, after the maner of shourings. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 417 These our discerning artificer considers as shorings to sustain the upper story. 1828Examiner 129/1 The Church wanted shoring up. 1832John Bull 13 Feb. 56/1 The shoring up of the south-west wall of St. Alban's Abbey is being proceeded with. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 357 The miners are protected by immensely strong shorings. 1882C. H. Stock (title) A treatise on Shoring and Underpinning.
†2. A slope. Obs.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 187 And orderly he knits A rowe of feathers one by one..That on the shoring of a hill a man would think them growe. 1603T. M. True Narr. Entert. Jas. I, D 1, A pleasant Castle..stands on the shoring of a hill.
▪ II. ˈshoring, vbl. n.2 Sc.
[f. shore v.2 + -ing1.]
Threatening.
1573Tyrie Refut. To Rdr. (beg.), All the writtinges of those quha defendes ane euill caus..vsis to be stufit..with schoring and hedinfull saingis. 1582in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 670 As the vaine and bloodie minassing, and shoring of his counsels in France and England did oft times testifie.
▪ III. shoring, vbl. n.3|ˈʃɔərɪŋ|
[f. shore v.4 + -ing1.]
(See quot.)
1742De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 353 Several Mornings after it had blown something hard in the Night, the Sands were covered with Country People, running to and fro to see if the Sea had cast up anything of value. This the Seamen call going a shoring; and it seems they often find good Purchase.
▪ IV. ˈshoring, ppl. a.1
[f. shore v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Propping, supporting.
1622Bacon Hen. VII, 145 There was also made a shoaring or underpropping Act for the Benevolence.
2. Sloping. Also quasi-adv., awry.
a1502in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 189 And than set your turfe or your erthe ayen the fyre, and set it shoring ayen the fyre. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 140 The river..In very deepe and shoring banks to seaward runnes apace Through Phrygia. 1594Blundevil Exerc. viii. Terms Cosmogr. (1597) 364 b, The Zodiake is a great, broade, and slope, or shoring Circle, carrying the 12 signes. 1607Markham Caval. iv. 37 This plate must from the very toe of the shoe forward, rise a little shoaring from the ground. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Shoring, awry; aslant. From the oblique or slanting position of a shore or buttress.
Hence ˈshoringness, slantingness.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 202 A tilesherd made it even And tooke away the shoringnesse.
▪ V. † ˈshoring, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. shore v.2 + -ing2.]
Threatening.
1513Douglas æneis viii. iv. 13 First, do behald ȝone schorand hewchis brow, Quhair all ȝone craggy rochis hingis now.
▪ VI. shoring, ppl. a.3|ˈʃɔərɪŋ|
[f. shore v.4 + -ing2.]
Forming a shore.
1581A. Hall Iliad iv. 72 Like as the waues within the sea,..Forst by some flaw, yeelds whushing noise and shoring banks do sweepe. |