foreshore

foreshore
/fawr"shawr', fohr"shohr'/, n.
1. the ground between the water's edge and cultivated land; land along the edge of a body of water.
2. the part of the shore between the high-water mark and low-water mark.
[1755-65; FORE- + SHORE1]

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