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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Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.
Axis :: Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name)..
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Tunguses :: Tunguses (n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.
Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
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..
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..
Atabal :: Atabal (n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors..
Moreland :: Moreland (n.) Moorland.
Moor :: 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..
Moor :: Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly..
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A mooring hawser.
Tawny :: Tawny (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion..
Berthage :: Berthage (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
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..
Morisco :: Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture..
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
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