(Homonym: literal).
The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; SYN. litoral, littoral zone, sands.

1. A beam that is propped against a structure to provide support.
2. The land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river).

1. A complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
2. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
3. A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).