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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1816-1853

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SHORE, n.3 A sewer, drain. Gen. in phr. the common shore. Obs. in Eng. exc. dial. [ʃo:r]Edb. 1816 Blackwood's Mag. (May) 202:
Her Luckenbooths now choak the common shore.Abd. 1853 W. Cadenhead Flights 168:
An' for the burn, . . . It has been lang a common shore.

[Prob., as N.E.D. thinks, not a variant of sewer, which gives Syver in Sc., but an extension of Shore, n.1, as the dumping ground for rubbish to be carried away by the tide. Cf. 1725 quot. s.v.]

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