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shore·front

 (shôr′frŭnt′)
n.
Land situated on the edge of a body of water.
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shorefront

(ˈʃɔːˌfrʌnt)
n
(Physical Geography) the area on the edge of a body of water
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Drain and storm water from these areas flowed into the canal before reaching the shorefront just south of Weld Quay where there is a pumping station to discharge the storm water into the sea.
Together the four hotels occupy 14 acres in downtown Meredith and stretch along 1,500 linear feet of shorefront, with only a town park separating Bay Point and Church Landing.
Time to Recharge Nothing tastes better than fish and chips fresh from the paper by the seaside or ice creams along the shorefront watching boats wrestle with the tides.
Tucked on a rugged terrain, it is the proverbial 'home away from home,' being an actual house before being transformed into a bespoke shorefront secluded paradise.
In addition, fitness enthusiasts are sure to appreciate the discount deal of three days of shorefront fitness sessions at The Warehouse Gym at The Beach for the price of one day.
Planters used hired servants to operate fishing boats that worked from shorefront fishing rooms, the larger of which were called premises or plantations.
81-565-18) (4 pages) (plaintiffs' appeal from a judgment of the Land Court in favor of the defendants; judge's finding that the zoning board of appeals of Marblehead reasonably interpreted its own by-laws on how to measure the height of a building when it issued a special permit for the construction of a new house on shorefront property; plaintiffs' contention that the interpretation of the by-laws is legally untenable, unreasonable, whimsical, capricious or arbitrary) (No.
15 from their capsized boat along a Japan shorefront. The men, who claimed to be fishermen, were then sent home on a large North Korean ship.
Its redneck residents specialise in hustling tourists for cash so a suave city slicker who seems keen to invest in shorefront businesses sets alarm bells ringing.