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Definition of shore : 1. 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.
2. A sewer.
3. imp. of Shear.
4. Same as Shearling.
5. The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
6. To set on shore.
7. To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

Synonyms:

shoring up, set down, bring, lakeshore, riverside, bund, mounting, foreshore, shoot down, river bank, seashore, support, marge, lakeside, border, propping up, crutch, brim, strand, margent, mount, underpinning, seaside, bight, brink, windward shore, sand, brace, buttress, reinforcement, bay, spur, set ashore, prop up, bound, seacoast, raised beach, prop, catchment area, cape, shoring, bring down, coastline, put down, rim, down, edge, shore up, seaboard, sea beach, stay, margin, lee shore, basin

coast, bank, stone, ground, soil, land, beach, mainland, earth, coastal, terra firma

Usage examples:

• Though what shore of all the earth this is, or how I got here, I know not." - "Cord and Creese", James de Mille.
• Michaelson, after watching the scene for a few minutes, turned abruptly and walked a few feet along the shore. - "The Lost Warship", Robert Moore Williams.
• By Heaven's high will compell'd from shore to shore; With Heaven's high will prepared to suffer more. - "The Odyssey of Homer", Homer, translated by Alexander Pope.