Definition of "shore"

the fruitful shore of muddy Nile

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]

Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored.

1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […]

I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]

If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.

1990, Christopher Gravett, Richard Hook, Medieval Siege Warfare, page 45

Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.

1993, Jim Trefethen, Wooden Boat Renovation: New Life for Old Boats using Modern Methods, page 106

These are called shored exit wounds. They are characterized by a broad, irregular band of abrasion of the skin around the exit. In such wounds the skin is reinforced, or "shored," by a firm surface at the instant the bullet exits.

1999, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds, page 94

It must provide the same degree of protection offered by a complete shoring system. Shoring Excavations Shallow trenches can be shored using wood sheet piling braced by stringers and rakers

1999, William P. Spence, Carpentry & Building Construction: A Do-It-Yourself Guide, page 14

... but his caravels were so much worm-eaten and shattered by storms that he could not reach that island, and was forced to run them on shore in a creek on the coast of Jamaica, where he shored them upright with spars

1811, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century, volume III, page 342

Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke[…]. The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass […].

1954, J R R Tolkien, “Shelob's Lair”, in The Two Towers: The second part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1966, page 331

Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe.

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, [Act 4, scene 6]

I need not mention the old common-shore of Rome.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]