MOOR


Meaning of MOOR in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

tie up/moor a boat (= tie it to something so that it stays in one place )

You can tie up the boat to that tree.

How much does it cost to moor a boat here?

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm.

Go left here, along the valley floor before turning left again to return to your start point over the high moors .

When the laundry maid had told her he had been married, she had gone up to the high moors and wept.

open

We were now on the cold, open moor .

The beautiful green fields with their thick hedges were behind us, and we were now on the cold, open moor .

The open moors now bore the names and the marks of their Covenant spirit.

Sometimes you hear them in the call of the curlew across the vast open moor .

I was alone on the open moor , with no money or possessions.

■ VERB

come

But why did he come out on to the moor ?

Then a terrible cry came across the moor .

I came over the moors through the snow to the Grange.

He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor .

I can not tell you why, but please do what I ask you, and never come near the moor again.

walk

In the afternoons, my servant, Tabby, took them for long walks on the moors behind the house.

I walked out on the moors behind the house.

I walked across the moors as fast as I could, and arrived breathless at Wuthering Heights.

And so Branwell spent more and more time drinking, and taking laudanum, and walking alone on the moors .

And I was very worried that neither of us would be with Sir Henry when he walked across the moor that night.

Ross and Jackson had walked off the moor and returned to base.

Then on we walked , over heather moor land now.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was holding a light in his hand and looking out on to the moor .

I can not tell you why, but please do what I ask you, and never come near the moor again.

I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor .

One night he was over the moors around North Stainmore and had to return home at dead of night.

The cottage, with its lichen-covered roof, looked as though it had grown out of the moor .

The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.

These tough animals, who live on the moors year round, were once used extensively in the coal mines.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

boat

By using fixed mooring systems for boats .

Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat .

David, who cruises with his wife and two children, moors the boat on the canal next to his home at Warrington.

Average working people subsidize the affluent to play golf and tennis or moor their boats .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Two battleships were moored to the east of Ford Island.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Merrill watched them walk across to where a group of small dinghies was moored.

Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat.

The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze.

The herring fleet was moored well inland, and the water was oil-tarnished.

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