Usually means: Anchored or secured in place.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. moored: Merriam-Webster
  2. moored: Collins English Dictionary
  3. moored: Vocabulary.com
  4. Moored, moored: Wordnik
  5. moored: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. moored: Wiktionary
  7. Moored, moored: Dictionary.com
  8. moored: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Moored: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Moored: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Moored: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. moored: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. moored: FreeDictionary.org
  14. moored: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. moored: Encyclopedia

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  1. moored: Urban Dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Moor)

noun:  An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
noun:  A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
verb:  (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
noun:  (historical) A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
noun:  (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
noun:  (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
noun:  (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
noun:  A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  An English surname transferred from the given name.
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