c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2332 The haþel heldet hym fro & on his ax rested, Sette þe schaft vpon schore & to þe scharp lened.

1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xiii. 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore . View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Acts. xxvii. 40 They..made toward shore . View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 154 If the winde blow any way from shore . View more context for this quotation

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xiii. 252 Steer in shore of them.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 87 The Shore (Leucania littoralis, Stephens) appears on the sea coast.

1886 J. Prestwich Geol. I. 122 A ‘shore-deposit’ extends for a distance of about 150 miles... Near volcanic islands the shore deposit..is less argillaceous.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons Introd. 4 In modern studies..of the shore-fauna or of the flora of lakes.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iv. 352 What a variety of biological impressions we gain from this walk among the shore-jetsam.

1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 1/1 Clement glanced at the umbrella and the obvious shore-rig of bounding little men.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shore-anchor, that which lies between the shore and the ship when moored.

1804 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Records) (1941) III. 309 A shore boat that will carry 20 Gang Casks..can be hired for 9/. pr day.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. i. 4 No shore-boat was near.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. ix. 75 The last man or two..came off in a shore-boat.

1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 65 Shore break, waves which break close to the beach.

1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/2 The next one you might take right to the ‘shore break’, the waves breaking on the very edge of the beach.

1972 Y. Maley in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iv. 77 Drouyn gets it on,..hangs five, re-enters the shore break, then steps off onto the sand.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 29 Discrediting our countrymen for shorecreepers, like these Colchester oystermen.

1895 Outing 26 408/2 Happy-Go-Lucky Beach is proud of their achievements..in the ordering of and presiding at a good shore-dinner.

1947 E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 267 It was arranged for the party to eat at the Massasoit a shore dinner cooked by Jeff.

1692 in Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1880) IV. 565 Shoar dewes at Leith 7,700 marks.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1856/2 At the blacke shore ende, before the sayde floud, no boate could passe further than the shore ende.

1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea 160 The shore-end [of the cord] is generally anchored to a stone.

1900 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 415 At the point where the water is shallow, the shore-end of the net is generally a good way out, perhaps 300 to 400 yards.

1912 J. Barrell in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XXIII. 385 The shore face is the relatively narrow slope developed by the breaking waves, a slope which separates the subaerial plain above from the subaqueous below.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xiv. 291 In appropriate circumstances some of the sediment in transit across the wave-cut platform accumulates in the deeper water beyond, to form a shoreface terrace which grows forward like a broad embankment with its upper surface in smooth continuity with the platform.

1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 654/2 Shoreface,..the narrow, rather steeply sloping zone seaward or lakeward from the low-water shoreline, permanently covered by water, and over which beach sands and gravels actively oscillate with changing wave conditions.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shore-fast, a hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore.

1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 iv. 445 In what they call a sedentaire and we a shore fishery we shall always outdo them.

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 671/1 Shore fisheries. Under this head are included all those fisheries prosecuted from small boats or from the shore without the aid or use of vessels.

1971 E. R. Seary Place Names Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland iv. 65 [The Killigrews] either settled permanently or had a summer plantation at Killigrews for the shore fishery.

1882 R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland 348 Shore-fowlers.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 263 They had gone down to shore-fowling the night before.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last xi The Shore-grapes with their green bunches of fruit.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Shore-grass, or Shore-weed.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 796/1 Covered with the long pendent shore~grass.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 262 He should go and get Davy's shore-gun.

1859 H. C. Folkard Wild-fowler liv. 285 Punters have, generally, a great antipathy to shore~gunners.

1859 H. C. Folkard Wild-fowler liv. 287 He intended having a night's punting at Ted's expense, by way of change from shore-gunning.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 46 Shore hold, the attachment of the hawser of a raft of logs to an object on the shore.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 69 Migrant tribes these fruitful shorelands hail.

1862 R. H. Story Life R. Story iii. 61 The hill lying behind the level shorelands of Rosneath.

1593 in Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 406 The..supplicatioun..for licence to haue ane impoist and schoir leiwe within thair harbery..of all schippis arryueand to and fra the samyn.

1888 E. L. Dorsey Midshipman Bob 205 They set about making the most of their shore-leave.

1941 ‘C. S. Forester’ Captain from Connecticut xv. 216 Shore leave..meant rum and women.

1974 M. Hastings Dragon Island iv. 37 Darley was leaning on the rail. ‘Shore leave?’ he asked.

1906 J. London Let. 17 Nov. (1966) 220 You can depend upon me giving good opportunities for shore-liberty.

1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. ix. 287 La Dauphine almost always anchored in an uncomfortable roadstead, and they had shore liberty but once in the entire voyage.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Carry On! 25 If an ordinary ‘shore-loafer’, as a bluejacket sometimes calls a civilian, were suddenly transported to one of His Majesty's battleships he would probably spend his first few days on board in a state of hopeless bewilderment.

1603 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 104 Tua penneis of schoir maill [to be paid].

1619 in Compt Bk. D. Wedderburne, etc. (S.H.S.) 302 Androw painter schoir maister.

1833 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters VI. 21 David Allan..was born..at Alloa,..where his father held the situation of shore~master.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 407 In the manufacture of the so-called shore oil, the only variety usually employed in medicine, the fish caught near land are brought at once to the shore, and the oil is obtained from the fresh livers.

1841 H. W. Petre Acct. Settlements N.Z. Co. iv. 77 System of ‘shore-parties’..is much more economical than the pursuit of the whale by ships equipped for the purpose.

1901 G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra iii. 160 My men at the barricades are between the sea party and the shore party.

1974 M. Hastings Dragon Island v. 42 Tallander's concern regarding any shore parties from our ship.

1917 Blue Jacket's Man. (ed. 5) 644 Perhaps the establishment of the Shore Patrol has done more than any other one institution to make petty officers realize their duty as a class.

1973 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher xvii. 176 The phone rang urgently in Shore Patrol headquarters at the fleet landing.

1944 Bull. Bur. Naval Personnel Information (U.S.) Sept. 12/1 The shore patrolman could have barged in to break up the argument.

1973 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher xx. 208 Dieter leaped..straight into the arms of two waiting Shore Patrolmen.

1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 220 Besides battering and degrading cliffs, wave-action makes shore-platforms, by shearing away the rocks of coasts down to a horizontal surface near low-tide level.

1978 A. L. Bloom Geomorphol. xix. 448 Shore platforms are developed by water-level weathering at various heights, relative to tide level, depending on structural factors..and also on wave energy, tidal range, and climate.

1826 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 291 Spoiled by some rascally shore popper.

1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. 225 A shore-shooter—or ‘shore-popper’, as he is rather contemptuously called by the punter.

1842 C. Darwin Coral Reefs iii. 51 Fringing reefs, or, as they have been called by some voyagers, shore reefs.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 289 It seems..absurd that the Massachusetts people should have supposed that the use of shore-seines was exterminating the Mackerel on the coast of Massachusetts.

1973 W. Elmer Terminol. Fishing ii. 69 The shore seine is worked with a boat and a shore party.

1880 ‘Wildfowler’ Mod. Wildfowling 422 It must not be imagined that the shore shooter bags only shore birds.

1829 G. Griffin Collegians III. xxxi. 2 He had gone down to the Dairy farm, for the purpose of shore-shooting.

1876 ‘Wildfowler’ Shooting & Fishing Trips II. 259 Shore-shooting, Fresh-water Angling, and Sea-fishing near Yarmouth.

1589 in Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 299 Sic dewty of schoir syluer sall..be vplifted att thair particular poirttis of sic gudes as salbe..transported furth thairof.

1966 Austral. Encycl. IX. 276/2 In 1947 a small chaser fed a shore station at Albany.

1966 Encycl. N.Z. III. 639/1 Hunting, therefore, occurred from vessels ranging considerable distances off shore, from others at bay anchorages, and also from a large number of open boats based on shore stations.

1885 G. K. Gilbert in 5th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1883–4 109 The base of a shore wall stands somewhat above and beyond the ordinary margin of water.

1893 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 3) 415 When the ice melts, this embankment of displaced material is left as a memorial of the severity of the climate. Such ‘shore-walls’ are of common occurrence on the margins of many lakes in Canada and the United States.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 195 Littorella..Plantain Shoreweed.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 60 From amid shore-weeds [ex alga].

1873 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1872 5 156 The females visit the bays and inlets round the coast to calve..where they are captured by the shore whalers.

1966 Encycl. N.Z. III. 640/1 Hundreds of right whales killed by pelagic whalers off shore and in the bays where ships' boats were often in direct competition with those of the shore whalers.

1841 S. Revans Lett. to H. S. Chapman (typescript) II. 163 If no shore whaling were allowed the cow would rear the calf and get fat.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 402 In the Shore Whaling.., when a Right Whale gives token of sinking, they fasten buoys to him.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. iii. 50 What is called shore-whaling, in contradistinction to deep sea-fishing.

1922 E. C. Starks Hist. Calif. Shore Whaling 6 Whaling may be classified under three heads:..Third.—For want of a better term we may call the third form modern shore whaling. The whales are not taken from small boats, but from a seaworthy steam whaler... The whaler stays out until it has secured one or more whales, which it tows to a whaling station on shore.

1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. p. xvii Today there is a shore whaling station at the seaward entrance to Tory Channel.

1921 A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. I. xvii. 518 This [littoral] district naturally falls into two zones, (a) that of the shore between high and low tide (shore zone) and (b) that permanently submerged..(neritic zone).

1978 A. L. Bloom Geomorphol. xix. 444 Where the postglacial rise of sea level has created a shoreline on a former hill slope, shore-zone processes cut a cliff and bench.

1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 195 Burrowing Shore-Beetles (Pimeliidæ).

1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 156 Hirundo riparia Aldrov. The Sand-Martin or Shore-bird.

1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 134 Some of the Shore-bugs dig burrows, and live for a part of the time beneath the ground.

1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 291 [They] have been dubbed ‘shore bugs’ by Comstock for the reason that they are always found upon the sea beach.

1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 28/2 The most common and widespread British shore bug..lives around the margins of ponds, ditches, and semi-stagnant streams and lakes.

1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 12 Carcinus Mænas. Common Shore-Crab.

1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds I. 184 The Shore Finches (Ammodromus) are likewise included in the family of Bunting Finches.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 266 [The raven] eats shore-fish, and shell-fish.

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes xix. 260 The Shore-fishes of the extremity of Africa.

1942 E. O. Essig College Entomol. xxxv. 743 (*Shore Flies, Ephydrid Flies.) Ephydridæ.

1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxvii. 633 The shore flies are small to very small; most of them are dark coloured.

1979 Nature 29 Nov. 501/2 Eighty per cent of their diet comprises three insect species, the shore fly, Ephydra riparia, the waterboatman, Trichocorixa reticulata, and the mosquito, Aedes dorsalis.

1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 623 The Shore-hopper (Orchestia littorea) is also plentiful on sandy coasts.

1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 48 Orchestia littorea. The common Shore-Jumper.

1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Animals N. Amer. 12 Shore Lark. Alauda alpestris.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 512 The Shore-Lark is in Europe a native of only the extreme north.

1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 194 Anthus aquaticus. The Shore Pipit.

1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 481 Shore Sandpiper... Tringa Littorea.

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 191 (note) The term ‘shore-birds’..means such species as the curlews, plovers, sandpipers, &c... On Long Island, and in its vicinity, ‘bay snipe’ and ‘shore snipe’.

1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds II. 111 The Mountain or Shore Swallows (Cotyle).

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 263 The Shore Wainscot (Leucania littoralis).

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 621 The fif..Com vith gret schoyr and mannasyng.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2657 in Poems (1981) 98 Swa thy father before Held me at bait, baith with boist and schore.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xi. Prol. 105 Stand at defens, and schrenk nocht for a schore.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 10 This Victoryn thame manassit with grit schoir.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 60 For weill, for wo, for boist, or zit for schoir, Quhair I am set, I sall lufe euer moir.

c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 246 Alas! hee may make great boast and shoure.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxii. 530 As touching props and shores to support vines, the best..are those of the Oke or Olive tree.

1672 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (new ed.) liii. 109 The Hunter hunteth wild-beasts, whilest he besetteth a Wood with Toyls, stretched out upon Shoars.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Shore, The prop or support used in constructing flakes for inclosing cattle.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Shoars, stakes set at a distance to shoar or bear up toils or nets in hunting.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Shore, a post used with hurdles in folding sheep. Dorset.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. G Ye lean (quoth he) to the wrong shore.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 61 Where once again the Roof does sloping rise In a steep craggy, and a lubrick shoar.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shore-cleats, heavy cleats bolted on to the sides of vessels to support the shore-head, and sustain the ship upright.

1908 Iron Age LXXXII. 555 (heading) The Shore Scleroscope.

1908 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 78 639 Maurer also gives an account of his investigations on the Shore hardness test.

1924 Z. Jeffries & R. S. Archer Sci. of Metals i. 21 The Shore numbers are more representative of the yield point than of the tensile strength.

1937 R. T. Rolfe Steels for User vi. 110 Thus a Brinell hardness of 131 should be equivalent to a Shore figure of..22, which is the same as the Shore hardness determined.

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xv. 226 The Shore hardness of the rubber stock should be between 8 to 16.

1979 J. Neely Pract. Metall. & Materials of Industry vi. 71/2 Elastic hardness is measured by an instrument called a Shore Scleroscope.

14.. in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 16 The groundes on the southir side lyen ferr oute, and arne shore too, for ye may come no nere them than vii fadome.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 22 A schoir crag, hye ande hydvous.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iv. 15 In ane braid sownd..Flowis the schoir deip.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 300 Ore craig, ore clewch, ore schoir.

1890 Dial. Notes 1 71 Shore, sure.

1898 G. B. Shaw Candida I. 97 Glad to meet you, I'm shore.

1932 V. Randolph Ozark Mountain Folks ix. 163 Hit shore was a bad night at our place. Yas, sir, hit shore was!

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 62 Well, stay, then, if these folks is shore you're welcome.

1973 R. Hoban Lion of Boaz-Jachin & Jachin-Boaz xviii. 100 It's a proper thing for a man to do—not like running a restaurant or some shore thing like that.

1979–80 Verbatim Winter 14/1 My cousin Sharon, a University of Missouri homecoming queen, shore did look pretty, and her mother shore could fry chicken.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 207 Holy bene is wel miȝ[t]vol avoreye God, vor hi is yssored mid uour þinges ase mid uour posstes.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xix. 47 Ne were hit vnder-shored certes hit sholde nat stande.]

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Cc.vij^v If that the house begin to falle, shore and staie it not with pieces of sclender tymbre.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxiiii^v The Easterlynges..so strongly shored and fortefied them selfes that they coulde not preuayle.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 141 Learning hath some strength to shore vp the person.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxxi. 153 As when a hunted Stag, now welnigh tir'd, Shor'd by an oak, 'gins with his head to play.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 29 To shoare the middle part of the head of the Windowes.

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 340 Christ might stand upon his own legs onely, and not be any longer shored up by the Baptist.

1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 32 The second..would fall to pieces, unless shoared up by sincere obedience.

1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. Gloss. p. xiv Shore up a Boat. When a boat is placed upon the blocks, and set upright, several shores are placed on each side; to prevent its falling either to one side or the other.

1841 Peter Parley's Ann. 48 He would have..shored up the sea-wall as usual.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains iii. 135 The old inn, long shored and trussed and buttressed.

1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant xxii. 219 This prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.

1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1021/1 These are all signs that local authorities are likely to shore up their position for the time being.

1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. d9/4 The Carter Administration was not contemplating any emergency measures to shore up the dollar.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 128 Wee may well bid him shore vp his eyes, & see.

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. sig. E ^v Shoare vp your eyes, and lead the way to the goodliest people that euer turnd vp the white o'th eye.

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 421 Therfore shore vp your eyes, good Mr. Adioynder.

?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. Biiij^v The sonne [in winter] shooreth so lowe by the grounde that his bemes thanne sklaunteth vpon the grounde.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iii. 34 Afrike..is shorter than Europe, but broader toward the Occean, where it riseth into mounteigne. And shoryng toward the Weste, by litle and litle waxeth more streighte.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xlix. 293 The horse will..stand shoaring or leaning alwaies on that side that he is hurt.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. ii. xiii. 121/1 That side of the Country vpward, that lieth shoaring vnto the top.

1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 224 These Lime-roddes must bee prickt sloapewise and crosse, shoaring alongst the ground.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 85 His forbeding to worschip hem is opunly found: & many veniaunces are schorid to her worschipars.

c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 58 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 359 Syne vthir tyme þai wald hir schore vith visage bald.

1516 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 53 Ye and your foresaidis..come furth..and w^th greit manissing wordis, schoiring [printed schowing] ye said Johne and his servand..for to slay them perforce.

1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 149 This to correct, thay schoir w^t mony crakkis.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 736 Than the Coilȝear quoke..Quhen he hard the suith say how he the King schord.

1597 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xv. 65 Thy absence also shores To cut my breath.

1638 R. Baillie Let. 27 Feb. (1841) I. 51 The wives railed, and shord him with stones, and were some of them punished.

1638 R. Baillie Let. 22 July (1841) I. 76 A number of women waits on, and did shoare him with stroakes.

?1721 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 134 Yon sooty Cloud shores Rain.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 242 Ye'll catechize him, ev'ry quirk, An' shore him weel wi 'Hell.

1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 66 The freits that were begun To shore us ill.

1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 355 A panegyric rhyme,..Even as I was he shor'd me.

1832–53 Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. 21 A compliment kindly and decently shored.

c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 192 Glacyng, or shoryng of harneys, pernitidacio.

1531 Luton Trinity Guild (1906) 201 Payde to Edwarde Treket for shorynge of the candylstykes.

1564 in Brit. Mag. (1834) 6 148 It'm pd for shoreinge the egoll, vj^d.

1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 848 The ship..shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would haue shored.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 43 They think they are sailing to heaven, and know nothing till they shore, sleeping in the land of death.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xvi. 245 Set him where his heart would haue bene shor'd.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 838 I will bring these two Moales, these blind-ones, aboord him. if he thinke it fit to shoare them againe..let him call me Rogue. View more context for this quotation

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 18 Two pence per draft is paid for shoreing or landing the fish from the vessels.

1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 126 The boat was temporarily shored on the beach.

1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 2 A little garden..Just shored the river in its broomy pride.

1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. iv. 273 Clearing..the whole periodicity of its materialistic horror..its dread of being shored by a Nothingness.