I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tie up/moor a boat (= tie it to something so that it stays in one place )
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You can tie up the boat to that tree.
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How much does it cost to moor a boat here?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm.
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Go left here, along the valley floor before turning left again to return to your start point over the high moors .
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When the laundry maid had told her he had been married, she had gone up to the high moors and wept.
open
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We were now on the cold, open moor .
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The beautiful green fields with their thick hedges were behind us, and we were now on the cold, open moor .
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The open moors now bore the names and the marks of their Covenant spirit.
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Sometimes you hear them in the call of the curlew across the vast open moor .
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I was alone on the open moor , with no money or possessions.
■ VERB
come
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But why did he come out on to the moor ?
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Then a terrible cry came across the moor .
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I came over the moors through the snow to the Grange.
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He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor .
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I can not tell you why, but please do what I ask you, and never come near the moor again.
walk
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In the afternoons, my servant, Tabby, took them for long walks on the moors behind the house.
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I walked out on the moors behind the house.
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I walked across the moors as fast as I could, and arrived breathless at Wuthering Heights.
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And so Branwell spent more and more time drinking, and taking laudanum, and walking alone on the moors .
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And I was very worried that neither of us would be with Sir Henry when he walked across the moor that night.
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Ross and Jackson had walked off the moor and returned to base.
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Then on we walked , over heather moor land now.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was holding a light in his hand and looking out on to the moor .
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I can not tell you why, but please do what I ask you, and never come near the moor again.
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I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor .
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One night he was over the moors around North Stainmore and had to return home at dead of night.
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The cottage, with its lichen-covered roof, looked as though it had grown out of the moor .
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The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
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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
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By using fixed mooring systems for boats .
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Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat .
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David, who cruises with his wife and two children, moors the boat on the canal next to his home at Warrington.
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Average working people subsidize the affluent to play golf and tennis or moor their boats .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Two battleships were moored to the east of Ford Island.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Merrill watched them walk across to where a group of small dinghies was moored.
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Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat.
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The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze.
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The herring fleet was moored well inland, and the water was oil-tarnished.