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Definition of Shoring
1. Noun. A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support.
2. Noun. The act of propping up with shores.
Generic synonyms: Support, Supporting
Derivative terms: Shore, Shore Up
Definition of Shoring
1. n. The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.
Definition of Shoring
1. Verb. (present participle of shore) ¹
2. Noun. Temporary bracing used to prevent something, such as a tunnel, trench, or wall, from collapse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shoring
1. a system of supporting timbers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoring
Literary usage of Shoring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IX THE SHEETING AND BRACING OF TRENCHES AND TUNNELS The shoring of trenches
consists of placing braces across them to hold their banks in normal ..."
2. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IX THE SHEETING AND BRACING OF TRENCHES AND TUNNELS The shoring of trenches
consists of placing braces across them to hold their banks in normal ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"shoring, NEEDLING, AND UNDERPINNING. 141. When the foundations of a building,
... shoring. shoring is a method of temporarily supporting the walls of a ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"... nor prevent the occupancy of the» present front building, and all'necessary»
shoring and underpinning, etc., in connection therewith, must be done. ..."
5. The Planning and Construction of High Office-buildings by William Harvey Birkmire (1898)
"shoring AND SHEATH-PILING UNDER LORD'S COURT BUILDING.—In order to cut off the
piles to within one foot of low water in the foundation of Lord's Court ..."
6. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"shoring.—From a consideration of the moment curve for two spans (Fig. 80) it is
evident that indiscriminate shoring of beams in ..."
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