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Date: 1400-1500
Origin: Probably from Middle Low German moren

moor

2 verb
     
Related topics: Water
moor2 [intransitive and transitive]
TTW to fasten a ship or boat to the land or to the bottom of the sea using ropes or an anchor:
Two or three fishing boats were moored alongside the pier.
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