The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast, The coast or land adjacent to a considerable body of water, as an ocean or sea, or a lake or river; the edge or margin of the land; a strand, the land along the edge of a body of water, verb_ support by placing against something solid or rigid, arrive on shore, serve as a shore to, transitive verb_ To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up, To support by or as if by a prop