dogshore

English

Etymology

From dog +‎ shore.

Noun

dogshore (plural dogshores)

1. (nautical) One of several shores used to prevent a ship from moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dogshore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)