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This is one of the marinas used for pleasure craft, and where Athenians — rich and not so rich — moor their boats.
Westmoreland, the historic county now subsumed into Cumbria, does not have a name meaning west mere land, despite its proximity to the Lake District, but west moor land, i.e., land of the people living to the west of the moors.
2.266), even the most unflappable reader must gasp at the Moor's offer to Gratiano: “Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,” nor will his guffaws entirely abate after he learns that butt here means goal . In Twelfth Night (v.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, And hideth in the tall grass, like a damn girl, Let him depart; I'll get him a job at CNN, Where mine appalling comments about the dusky Moor And olive-skinned Levantine (and working maidens fair, And--no one's really glommed onto this yet-- My disparagement of those men of right good male fellowship, Who doth hoard original-cast albums of Broadway musicals, If ya know what I mean) serves but to raise my fees on Crossfire . Forsooth, 'tis a rich scam!
When they wanted to moor the ship, they dropped a heavy object attached to a line, and they termed this anchoring , because the object was called an anchor (rather ankor, anker , or ancre ), When it was time to return to terra firma, they chose a short, appropriate noun to describe that action, to land .