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moor verb & noun3. L15.

A. verb.
verb trans. Secure (a ship, buoy, etc.) in a particular place with a cable or rope fastened to the shore or to an anchor. L15.
P. V. White Judd..had moored the raft to a tree on the opposite bank.
verb intrans. & refl. Secure one's ship etc. in a particular place; anchor. Also foll. by up. E17.
G. Anson We carried our hawsers..in order to moor ourselves nearer in shore. A. West We slid up the bank and moored for our picnic under a huge alder.
verb intrans. Of a ship: be made secure in a particular place. L17.
J. H. Bennet A..quay, that enables small vessels to moor close to land.
b. noun. An act of mooring. M18.