ashore

a- +‎ shore; see also onshore

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈʃɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈʃɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key): /əˈʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /əˈʃoə/
• Homophone: assure (accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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ashore (not comparable)

1. (nautical) On the land as opposed to onboard.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I shall no more to sea, to sea, / Here shall I die ashore— […]

2. (nautical) On, or towards the shore.

   The canoe sailed ashore.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

• When a ship collides with the shore it is said to have run ashore; when a ship collides with a submerged object, such as a reef or sandbar, it is said to have run aground.

• aland

• hangashore

• Hoares, ahorse, hearos, hoarse, shoare

From a- (“on”) +‎ shore (“a prop; support”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈʃɔːrə/

ashōre

1. aslant, on a slant

• setten ashore

• “ashōre, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.