onshore
Multiple Entries:onshore shore
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
onshore/ˈɒnʃɔː(r)/
▶adjective & adverb situated or occurring on land.
■ (of the wind) blowing from the sea towards the land.
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shore1
▶noun
- 1 the land along the edge of a sea, lake, etc.
■ Law the land between ordinary high- and low-water marks.
- 2 (also shores) literary a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast: distant shores.
– phrases
in shore on the water near land or nearer to land.
on shore ashore; on land.
in shore on the water near land or nearer to land.
on shore ashore; on land.
– derivatives
shoreless adjective,
shoreward adjective & adverb,
shorewards adverb.
shoreless adjective,
shoreward adjective & adverb,
shorewards adverb.
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shore2
▶noun a prop or beam set obliquely against something weak or unstable as a support. ▶verb (often shore something up) support or hold up with shores.
– derivatives
shoring noun.
shoring noun.
– origin ME: from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. schore ‘prop’, of unknown origin.
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shore3
archaic past of shear.
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