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shorer|ˈʃɔərə(r)|
Also 4–5 shorier, shoryere.
[f. shore v.1 + -er1.]
A thing (rarely a person) that shores up; a shore, prop. Now only with up.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. vii. in Chaucer's Wks. (1532) 342 b, But if the shorers ben wel grounded, the helpes shullen slyden and suffre the charge to fal. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xix. 20 Hit hadde shoriers to shoue hit vp, þre shides of o lengþe. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 473/2 Nowe thys shorer is so surely sette, that it is shortlye blowen downe quite, if a man saye no more but what than. a1680T. Goodwin Unreg. Man's Guilt. v. iii. Wks. 1692 III. 207 God is the foundation, and prop, and shoarer up of all being in the World. 1855Bailey Mystic 113 Möooi, stretched Full length, gigantic shorer up of earth. |