Middle English Dictionary Entry
shōre n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | shōre n.(3) Also (early) score; pl. shor(r)es. |
| Etymology | ?From MLG schōr(e barrier, MDu. schore prop; cp. OI skorða prop. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A prop, support; a wooden prop used to support a wall, a fence, a ship under construction, etc.; ~ tre, ?a piece of wood used for support in shipbuilding.
Associated quotations
- (1294-5) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 187 : Item, in Meremio empto per diuersa loca ad scoretren, Reuesynges, et allangosen liiij s. vj d.
- (1295) *Acc.Exch.K.R.5/7 [OD col.] : Lign. pro scoretrem.
- (1318) in Salzman Building in Engl.85 : [3 carpenters sharpening piles and making] howetrys [and] shorys [and setting them upon the weir].
- (1337-8) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 189 : Idem computat in..Wodenailes, scaffotis, et shoris pro dicta bargea construenda.
- (1357) *Pipe Roll (PRO) 30 Edw.III m.39d [OD col.] : Shoris pro bargia construenda.
- (1359-60) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59271 : [Paid divers workmen for inclosing a certain plot..in the forest of Macclesfeld with] rayles, postis, [and] shores.
- (1409) *Acc.Exch.K.R.44/11(3).m.2 [OD col.] : In vj fagottes longis..pro schorres et postes pro supportacione dicte bargie.
- (1417) *For.Acc.(PRO) 8 Hen.V D/2 [OD col.] : De diuersis veteribus peciis maeremii..vocatis Shoris, pil[is], et plankes.
- (1423-4) in Whitaker Hist.Whalley 1347 : Solvit Ade del Swynhilhirst..pro sustentacione palicii per circuitum parci..tam de veteribus quam de novis palis, shoris, et raylis de meremio Regis.
- (1432-7) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 189 : Diuersis peciis maeremij pro shores pro eadem Balingera.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)448 : Schore, undur settynge of a thynge þat wolde falle [Win: to vnder sete with a thynge þat wule falle]: Suppositorium [Win: Subportorium].
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)577/25 : Þe Flemmynges..vndermynet þe walles and þe toures and sette shores vndernethe, And after, sette þe same shores on fyre and brent hem and so lete þe walles and toures fall doune into þe dikes.