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Shipboard
- adjective - casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship; "shipboard romances"
Shoetreed
- verb - stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
Shopboard
- - A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.
Shorebird
- noun - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
Shoreward
- adjective - (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds"
Shoreweed
- unknown - tufty aquatic perennial
Shortened
- verb - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
- with parts removed; "the drastically cut
Shorthand
- adjective - a method of writing rapidly
- written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
Shorthead
- - A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.