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v. To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines: moor a ship to a dock; a dirigible moored to a tower.

v. To fix in place; secure. See Synonyms at fasten.

verb-intransitive. To secure a vessel or an aircraft with lines or anchors.

verb-intransitive. To be secured with lines or anchors: The freighter moored alongside the wharf.

n. A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs.

n. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

n. a game preserve consisting of moorland

v. To cast anchor or become fastened.

v. 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.

v. To secure or fix firmly.

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

n. Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

n. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

n. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

v. To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains

v. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

verb-intransitive. To cast anchor; to become fast.

n. A tract of open, untilled, and more or less elevated land, often overrun with heath.

n. A tract of land on which game is strictly preserved for the purposes of sport.

n. Any uninclosed ground.

n. Synonyms Morass, etc. See marsh.

To confine or secure (a ship) in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by lines; specifically, to secure (a ship) by placing the anchors so that she will ride between them, thus occupying the smallest possible space in swinging round.

To secure; fix firmly.

To be held by cables or chains.

To fasten or anchor a boat or ship.

n. The act of mooring.

A dialectal form of more.

n. One of a dark race dwelling in Barbary in northern Africa. They derive their name from the ancient Mauri or Mauritanians (see Mauritanian), but the present Moors are a mixed race, chiefly of Arab and Mauritanian origin. The name is applied especially to the dwellers in the cities. The Arabic conquerors of Spain were called Moors.

n.

n. A dark-colored person generally; a negro; a black.

n. An officer in the Isle of Man who summons the courts for the several districts or sheadings.

n. A bailiff of a farm.

v. secure with cables or ropes

v. come into or dock at a wharf

n. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

n. one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

v. secure in or as if in a berth or dock

"But this year, on this very sunshiny morning, he had announced at breakfast that he could not let us go to what we called our moor-home."

moored    moores    mooring    moors   

fix    secure    fasten    dock    Muslim    Moslem   

to moor with an open hawse    to moor across    to moor head and stern    a flying moor    moor rock    to moor along    mooring anchor    moor's head    marsh    bog   

moored    mooring    moorland   

heath    moorland    bent    brier    moorman    moresco    Marrano    maugrabee    maugrabin    berth   

Baldur    Bloor    Moore    Muir    Ruhr    Ur    allure    assure    bonjour    boor   

marsh    prairie    heath    hillside    meadow    moorland    steppe    plateau    valley    desert