shore

adj

1. Pronunciation spelling of sure.

adv

1. Pronunciation spelling of sure.

intj

1. Pronunciation spelling of sure.

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun shore. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Schorr, Szor, Schauer.

1. A topographic surname from Middle English.
2. A place in England:
3. A place in England:

noun

Etymology: Originally common-shore.

1. A sewer.

   “Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe.”

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

verb

Etymology: Uncertain. The word is attested in Northern English and Scots; the DSL states that schore "to threaten" is attested before 1400 (a corresponding noun schoyr is attested since 1375: "vith gret schoyr and mannasyng" in Barbour's Bruce), and suggests it might ultimately be related to Old Scots schoir "steep (of a crag)", related to shear. Alternatively, it has been suggested that it might be a variant of score or sure and related to assure.

1. To threaten or warn unpleasant consequences (for someone); (sometimes) to threaten or warn off or scare away.

   “The Gleds might pyked her at the dyke, Before the lads wad shored them off her.”

   “Bess flew till him […] and with her fatal Knife shored she would geld him, For peace that day.”

2. To threaten (to rain).

   “For a' our tears and sighs are but in vain: Come, help me up; — yon sooty cloud shores rain.”

   “[…] the cauld win' louder blew, Shorin' o' drift,[…]”

3. To offer or present (someone something).

   “... a compliment kindly and decently shored, […]”