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Example sentences for: moor

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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 .
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!
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.
Moor and mountain use the same word in Gaelic ( monadh ) but more to the botanical point is the probable relation of moor to das meer , `the sea.
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.