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Synonyms for moory
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : moo r |
| Phonetic Transcription : mʊər |
Définition of moory
Origin :- "to fasten (a vessel) by a cable," late 15c., probably related to Old English mærels "mooring rope," via unrecorded *mærian "to moor," or possibly borrowed from Middle Low German moren or Middle Dutch maren "to moor," from West Germanic *mairojan. Related: Moored, mooring. French amarrer is from Dutch.
- As in marshy : adj swampy
- The house is clean, and the district is moory—just on the outskirts of the great coalfield.
- Extract from : « James Geikie » by Marion I. Newbigin
- We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses.
- Extract from : « Wild Wales » by George Borrow
- Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
- Extract from : « The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 » by Gilbert White
- So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again—and now I saw that it was water.
- Extract from : « Wild Wales » by George Borrow
- We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
- Extract from : « Wild Wales » by George Borrow
- Friable—Where the soil is loose and open, as is generally the case in sandy, gravelly, and moory lands.
- Extract from : « Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry » by Thomas Davis
- The spot, though itself bare and moory, was nearly surrounded by wood, and looked like a clearing in an American forest.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Betsey » by Hugh Miller
- As a common it afforded a little picking for geese and asses, and in the moory parts of it, a little fuel for the labourers.
- Extract from : « Rural Rides » by William Cobbett
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