imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also shoar.]
To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
The coast or...