单词 | shoring |
释义 | shoringn.1 1. a. The action or an act of propping up or supporting. Also shoring up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > action or fact of supporting staying1428 shoring1496 supporting1577 supportance1597 underbearing1597 1496 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 175 The shoryng of the Soueraigne leing in the dokke. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 324 Things readie to fall, need shoaring. 1828 Examiner 129/1 The Church wanted shoring up. 1832 John Bull 13 Feb. 56/1 The shoring up of the south-west wall of St. Alban's Abbey is being proceeded with. 1882 C. H. Stock (title) A treatise on shoring and underpinning. b. concrete. The shores or props with which a building, vessel, etc. is held up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop > collectively propping1633 shoringa1639 a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 316 Where young tender trees..would yet little want any after-underproppings and shoarings. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxi. 254/1 He beareth Or, a plaine wall..with a Tower vpon it Battled, with chambers conioyned therevnto, after the maner of shourings. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 292 These our discerning artificer considers as shorings to sustain the upper story. 1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 357 The miners are protected by immensely strong shorings. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] hield943 lithOE pendanta1387 bankc1390 slentc1400 shoring1567 rist1577 inclining1596 slope1626 side-slip1649 slant1655 sideling1802 hang1808 siding1852 counterslope1853 bajada1866 tilt1903 palaeoslope1957 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 99 And orderly he knits A rowe of fethers one by one..That on the shoring of a hill a man would thinke them grow. 1603 True Narration Entertainm. His Maiestie sig. D1 A pleasant Castle..stands on the shoring of a hill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shoringn.2 Scottish. Threatening. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] threatc1000 threating1046 threateningc1290 menacec1300 menacingc1385 shore1487 interminationa1530 minacitya1538 shoring1573 menacement1606 minacy1645 peril1892 Mau Mau1970 mau-mauing1970 1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox To Rdr. (beg.) All the writtinges of those quha defendes ane euill caus..vsis to be stufit..with schoring and hedinfull saingis. 1582 in 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). shoringn.3 (See quot. 1742.) ΚΠ 1742 Defoe's Tour Great 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shoringadj.1 1. Propping, supporting. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting bearingOE portativea1500 supporting1591 shoring1622 stutted1638 supportive1665 firmamental1696 sustinent1704 support1778 sustaining1814 self-supporting1832 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 145 There was also made a shoaring or underpropping Act for the Benevolence. 2. Sloping. Also quasi-adv., awry. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] sidelonga1398 aslanta1400 aslopec1400 embelifc1400 a-sloutc1440 sleetc1440 slant1495 obliquely1503 shoringc1503 a-swash1530 biaswise1545 biasways1556 slantingly1570 sideways1572 slantwise1573 avelinges1577 bias?1578 askant1602 slopely1605 slantinga1625 oblique1667 bias-way1702 skew1706 slantly1719 inclinably1760 slantways1828 slantindicular1831 slantindicularly1834 skewly1896 slaunchways1933 the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping pyramidala1398 shoringc1503 slopec1503 pitching1519 current?1523 battering1589 pitched1594 aslope1599 sloping1610 shelving1615 stooping1621 raking1665 sloped1683 shedding1688 slopy1740 raked1948 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxijv/1 And than set your turfe or your erthe ayen the fyre and set it shoring ayen the fyre. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 74 The Riuer..In verie deepe and shoring bankes to Seaward runnes a pace Through Phrygie. 1597 T. Blundeville Exercises (ed. 2) viii. f. 364v The Zodiake is a great, broade, and slope, or shoring Circle, carrying the 12. signes. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 35 This plate must from the verie toe of the shooe forward, rise a little shoaring from the ground. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shoring, awry; aslant. From the oblique or slanting position of a shore or buttress. Derivatives ˈshoringness n. slantingness. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > quality of being oblique obliquity?a1425 shoringness1567 biasness1611 obliqueness1611 diagonality1859 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 106v A tylesherd made it euen And tooke away the shoringnesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2020). † shoringadj.2 Obsolete. Threatening. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] ticklec1325 boastful1382 threatinga1400 menacing?a1439 louringa1450 shoring1513 threatening1530 minatory1532 threatful?1567 minanta1657 minacious1660 menaceful1742 minitant1854 minitabund1890 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iv. 13 First, do behald ȝone schorand hewchis brow, Quhair all ȝone craggy rochis hingis now. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). shoringadj.3 Forming a shore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > forming shoring1581 relict1584 relicteda1676 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 72 Like as the waues within the sea,..Forst by some flaw, yeelds whushing noise and shoring banks do sweepe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11496n.21573n.31742adj.1c1503adj.21513adj.31581 |
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