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She did not care to know fresh people; she hates strangers; to walk with her bulldog, Keeper, over the moors is her best adventure.

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  1. transitive verb To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines: moor a ship to a dock; a dirigible moored to a tower.
  2. transitive verb To fix in place; secure. See Synonyms at fasten.
  3. intransitive verb To secure a vessel or an aircraft with lines or anchors.
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  • Somehow we managed the most un antiseptic Caesarian on record -- and ended up with two live patients. —  Bush Doctor's Bride
  • And now they were so high that they could see tiny-looking jagged mountains appearing beyond the northwest moors, and plains of what looked like sand far in the south. —  The Magician's Nephew
  • He knew exactly what she meant; the wildness of the glens and the moors was inhabited, in a way that this place of forests and rushing waters was not. —  Drums of Autumn
  • The birds and beasts had gone to rest, and the stillness of the moors was awful. —  The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor
  • She did not care to know fresh people; she hates strangers; to walk with her bulldog, Keeper, over the moors is her best adventure. —  Emily Brontë
 

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