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Wharf :: Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier..

Shore :: Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building..

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails..

Shelving :: Shelving (a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..

Moses :: Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship..

Shorer :: Shorer (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore..

Sea Mud :: Sea mud () A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze..

Road :: Road (n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads..

Pale :: Pale (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

Rivage :: Rivage (n.) A bank, shore, or coast..

Roadstead :: Roadstead (n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..

Celt :: Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France..

Cove :: Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore..

Maroon :: Maroon (v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

Shoreling :: Shoreling (n.) See Shorling.

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

Dogshore :: Dogshore (n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

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