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Shoreless

Having no shore or coast of indefinite or unlimited extent as a shoreless ocean

Shoreward

Toward the shore

Foreshore

Foreshore. 'The shore and bed of the sea and of every channel, creek, bay, estuary, and of every navigable river of

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Wharf

27), s. 68, and Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.). A structure on shore of navigable waters, to which a vessel can be brought for loading or unloading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Wreck

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, 'wreck' includes in that Act 'jetsam, flotsam, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water.' The term is used in several senses, e.g., a ship which

Shorer

One who or that which shores or props a prop a shore

Offing

That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot also distance from the shore as

Dangerous

or even to trespassers, and an owner may still be liable even though the council has itself temporarily shored up a building, LCC v. Jones, (1912) 2 KB 504.

Shoar

A prop See 3d Shore

Ballast

vessel being said to be 'in ballast' when she sails without a cargo. For penalty for taking from shore of harbour, etc., see (English) Harbours Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c. 15); and for penalty for throwing

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