[f. A prep.1 + SHORE.]
1. Of motion: To, or on to, the shore; to land.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589), 341. The first sort may easilie cast anchor, come a shore, and save themselves.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (1709), 31. Thrown a-Shoar when the Vessel is wreck’d.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1783), II. 256. The ships were drawn ashore.
1876. Black, Madcap Violet, viii. 75. ‘I must be getting ashore now.’
2. Of position: On shore, on the land.
1631. Heywood, Maid of West, II. III. Wks. 1874, II. 375. I am come to sea, And left my heart ashore.
1713. Steele, Englishm., No. 21. 137. He behaves himself ashore as if he were still on board.
1823. Mar. Graham, Resid. Chile, 115. I have now been two hours ashore.
