DictionaryRoot: schore
Middle Dutch

schore

a shore or coastal margin

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A gently curving lakeshore, with dry grassy land transitioning through a narrow pebbly strip into shallow blue-green water.
noun

shore

Probably related to this root.

SHOR/ʃɔːr/

Land along the edge of a body of water.

Etymology

Probably from a continental Germanic shore-word such as schore. Its deeper association with cutting remains uncertain.

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