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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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Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.

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..

Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..

Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.

Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

Fen :: Fen (n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh..

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.

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.

Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.

Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.

Gorcock :: Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse..

Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.

Blackmoor :: Blackmoor (n.) See Blackamoor.

Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.

Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

Moreland :: Moreland (n.) Moorland.

Moor :: Moor (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..