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单词 shoreline
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shorelinen.

Brit. /ˈʃɔːlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈʃɔrˌlaɪn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shore n.1, line n.2
Etymology: < shore n.1 + line n.2With sense 1 compare coast-line n. at coast n. Compounds 1. With sense 2 compare shore-rope n. at shore n.1 Compounds 2.
1. The line along which a large body of water meets the land; a line following the shore; the strip of land lying along such a line. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line
seasidec1275
the sea's sidea1400
seasides1532
shoreside1571
sea-linea1687
seaboard1788
waterline1789
shoreline1811
sea-edge1820
coast-line1861
ocean line1870
ria coast1899
rias coast1899
1811 Chester Chron. 29 Nov. A very good road may be made to Chester in this direction..but the distance would be increased about 9½ miles above that of the improved shore line.
1842 N.Y. Herald 10 Aug. It would have been advantageous to have had them inside [the reef] to trace the shore line, but the necessity depends upon the closeness of the survey.
1852 A. Henfrey Vegetation Europe 187 The shore-line along the edge of the hilly ridges.
1866 J. R. Lowell Seward-Johnson Reaction in Writ. (1890) V. 299 The levels and shore-lines of politics are no more stationary than those of continents.
1918 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1917 50 215 Some of the material is thrown up on the beach, so that the shore-line advances seawards.
1965 N.Y. Times 9 May (Travel section) 27/2 An 85-mile stretch of scenic shoreline running northwest from this British Columbian metropolis has been dubbed the Sunshine Coast.
2006 J. Pilkington Jingler's Luck 1 The flotsam that lay along the shoreline, washed downriver from London.
2. A rope connecting a boat, fishing net, etc., with the shore; = shore-rope n. at shore n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > ropes on nets
norsel1440
head-roping1615
nostelling1615
warrope1615
way-rope1641
head rope?1748
warp1835
balk1847
trawl-warp1864
ground-rope1874
brail1883
shoreline1887
shore-rope-
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 529 For the management of these seines they are each provided with a ‘shore-line’ 50 fathoms long.
1966 H. D. Smith et al. in N. J. Wilimovsky & J. N. Wolfe Environment Cape Thompson Region xxxii. 863 Once in place, the net is held open by the alongshore current and kept in position by a shore line from the bridle on the offshore end.
2018 R. Heikell & L. Heikell Turkish Waters & Cyprus Pilot (ed. 10) vi. 340/1 You may have difficulty finding something to tie a shore-line to, but the local fishermen seem amiable enough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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