dog-shore
Each of two blocks of timber used to prevent a ship from starting off the slips while the keel-blocks are being removed in preparation for launching.
| 1805 D. Steel Naval Archit. ii. 396 The dog-shores should be knocked down, each falling instantly. 1861 Sala Dutch Pict. xi. 171 The dogshores were knocked away, the frigate slid down her ways, and took the water. 1877 Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 211 Useful as the scaffold to a house or the dogshores to a ship. |