What is "shored"

Usage examples of "shored".

Until now, the horizontal tunnels opening into the side of the shaft had been crude and ragged, poorly shored, some partially caved in.

The Free Traders wanted no tariffs or duties upon imports, the Protectionists wanted local industries shored up by tariffs and duties upon imports.

Stonecraftsmen had cleared the lake and shored up the edge in a massive wall but little could be done to clear the lost caverns and weyrs, or restore the symmetry of the Bowl.

Scaffolding and temporary girders shored up the broken facades of government buildings.

When this ornate pedestal was completed and shored up with reinforced arcs, it would become the platform for a colossal statue representing the idealized, long-lost human form of the Titan Ajax.

Its walls and ceiling were shored with ancient timbers that gave out a smell of moldy dampness.

This passageway was narrower than the one they had just left and not shored by timbers.

The crowbar must have been painted to attract their attention and then cunningly planted at a weakly shored part of the tunnel!

They found themselves in a long, narrow tunnel, perhaps five feet high and three feet across, shored with massive timbers similar to those in the Water Pit itself.

These were quite unlike the great tunnels under Morguhnpolis, being no more than six feet high and five wide, unpaved and shored up by old, rotting timbers.

The arm leading to the Citadel, though not paved, was at least walled and shored with granite, probably because of the immense weight of masonry above it.

If Alexander had been a less careful custodian and left the river as it had been after the mining of the placer, flooding would have been inevitable, but he had shored the banks and returned the stream to a proper course dredged deep enough to take the overflow.

Typical Alexander, it was more than adequately shored up by massive beams, though Lee knew that the granite in this part of the mountain didn’t have enough greywacke to make a collapse likely.