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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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