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HUG THE SHORE

Specialty Definition: HUG THE SHORE

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Literature

Hug the Shore (To). In the case of a ship, to keep as close to the shore as is compatible with the vessel's safety, when at sea. "Serrer la terre." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: HUG THE SHORE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Approach

Verb: approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.

Navigation

Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HUG THE SHORE

English words defined with "HUG THE SHORE": To keep the land aboard. (references)

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Modern Translation: HUG THE SHORE

Language Translations for "HUG THE SHORE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏ظل محاذيا للشاطئ. (various references)

   

French

  

serrer la côte. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ughay ethay oreshay

   

Russian 

  

держаться берега. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HUG THE SHORE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-h-o-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: resought, roughest.

-4 letters: gesture, heteros, rehouse, shouter, souther, through, tougher, troughs.

-5 letters: egrets, ergots, erugos, ethers, greets, grouse, grouts, gusher, hereto, heroes, hetero, heughs, horste, houser, hugest, others, oughts, ouster, outers, outsee, reshoe, reshot, retuse, rogues, rouges, roughs, routes, rouths, rugose, rushee, sheugh, sought, souter, stereo, stoure, theres, though, threes, thresh, throes, thrush.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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