Definition of moor

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Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf..

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Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
Marish :: Marish (a.) Moory; fenny; boggy.
Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..
Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..
Axis :: Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name)..
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.
Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Homoorgan :: Homoorgan () Same as Homoplast.
Moorland :: Moorland (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
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