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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Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.
Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..
Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..
Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
Moor :: Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Morocco :: Morocco (n.) A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors..
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..
Moor :: Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly..
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.
Smore :: Smore (v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.
Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West..
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
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..
Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.
Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.
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