moor a vessel

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• Moor — (m[=oo]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moored} (m[=oo]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mooring}.] [Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See {Mar}.] 1. (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• vessel — noun 1 ship/boat ADJECTIVE ▪ stranded, stricken ▪ seaworthy ▪ sailing, steam ▪ ocean going, seagoing …   Collocations dictionary

• moor — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun (esp. BrE) ADJECTIVE ▪ bleak, desolate, open, wild, windswept PREPOSITION ▪ across the moor …   Collocations dictionary

• moor — {{11}}moor (n.) waste ground, O.E. mor morass, swamp, from P.Gmc. *mora (Cf. O.S., M.Du. Du. meer swamp, O.H.G. muor swamp, also sea, Ger. Moor moor, O.N. mörr moorland, marr sea ), perhaps related to …   Etymology dictionary

• moor — 1. noun /mɔɹ,mʊ(ə)ɹ,mɔː,mʊə(ɹ)/ a) an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their… …   Wiktionary

• moor — To fasten and hold a vessel to anchor or pier by cable or chain. To tie floating logs to a structure, natural or artificial, on shore of the stream. 34 Am J1st Logs § 74 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• flying moor — Naut. the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way. * * * …   Universalium

• flying moor — noun : a mooring in which the first anchor is let go while the ship has enough way to carry it at least to the point for dropping the second anchor * * * Naut. the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is …   Useful english dictionary

• HNoMS Sæl — was the penultimate vessel of the ten 1. class torpedo boats of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built at the Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard in Horten in 1901, with yard number 85. [Horten municipal archive for local history:… …   Wikipedia

• hawse — /hawz, haws/, n., v., hawsed, hawsing. Naut. n. 1. the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located. 2. a hawsehole or hawsepipe. 3. the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the …   Universalium

• anchor — 1. noun /ˈæŋkə,ˈæŋkɚ/ a) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. , Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor, best bower, bower, stream and kedge anchors, depending… …   Wiktionary