dogshoren.
/ˈdɒɡʃɔː/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌʃɔr/, /ˈdɑɡˌʃɔr/ Nautical. Now historical.
One of a pair of blocks or struts of timber temporarily positioned on either side of the launch cradle of a ship to prevent it from sliding down the slipway prematurely. Cf. shore n.3
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching
ways1581
bilge-ways1769
dogshore1780
driver1781
slice1791
puppet1792
stopping up1805
dog1831
dagger1838
bulge-ways1850
poppet1850
trigger1867
1780 in R. J. B. Knight Portsmouth Dockyard Papers 1774–1783 (1987) 108 You asked if there was any neglect in launching Fox;..it was an unforeseen accident in not being able to knock down the starboard dog-shore as the same time as the larboard one.
1805 D. Steel Naval Archit. ii. 396 The dog-shores should be knocked down, each falling instantly.
1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. xi. 171 The dogshores were knocked away, the frigate slid down her ways, and took the water.
1896 Daily News 9 Dec. 11/1 Miss Goschen cut the cord on the pedestal before her, and the weights fell with a crash on the dog shores, which were instantly knocked away.
1938 S. E. Tomkins Ship Constr. viii. 79 All shoring..has been knocked away excepting a few dog shores.
1956 J. W. Oliver Hist. Amer. Technol. i. 52 Two men, at the direction of the shipwright, knocked down the dogshores and the ship slid down the ways by force of her own weight.
1997 Sun (Baltimore) 6 July b1/3 A ‘dogshore’ hewn from a huge white oak and used to prop up ships men were working on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1780