remoor

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ moor.

Verb

remoor (third-person singular simple present remoors, present participle remooring, simple past and past participle remoored)

  1. To moor again.
    • 1875, Philip Van Ness Myers, Remains of Lost Empires:
      Mohammed gave the alarm, and a frantic effort was made to remoor the raft; but the hawsers were jerked away, and we commenced driving along the shore at a rapid rate.
    • 1893, Harry Collingwood, The Doctor of the 'Juliet': A Story of the Sea, page 314:
      In the first place, it would be a long, difficult, and arduous task for those two alone to unmoor, get under way, and remoor such a ship as the Fair Rosamond; in the next, she would be very awkward to handle in her dismantled condition; and, lastly, they were award of no place where she would be less likely to remain undiscoverd than in her present anchorage.
    • 1980, European Offshore Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Proceedings - Part 2, page 33:
      Adverse weather conditions in the North Sea affect the tankers' ability to stay moored to the SPM and their ability to remoor, and are the major cause of offloading downtime.

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