h fresh water. Also, an open common.

MOOR, TO. To secure a ship with anchors, or to confine her in a
particular station by two chains or cables, either fastened to the
mooring chains or to the bottom; a ship is moored when she rides by two
anchors.

MOOR A CABLE EACH WAY, TO. Is dropping one anchor, veering out two
cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the opposite bow;
the first is then hove in to one cable, or less according to
circumstances, while the latter is veered out as much, whereby the ship
rides between the two anchors, equally distant from both. This is
usually practised in a tide-way, in such manner that the ship rides by
one during the flood, and by the other during the ebb.

MOOR ACROSS, TO. To lay out one of the anchors across stream.

MOOR ALONG, TO. To anchor in a river with a hawser on shore to steady
her.

MOOR-GALLOP. A west-country term for a sudden squall coming across the
moors.

MOORING-BRIDLE. The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each
hawse-hole, or bridle-port.

MOORING-CHOCKS. Large pieces of hard wood with a hole in the centre,
shod with iron collars, and fastened between two stanchions in large
ships, for the moorings to pass through.

MOORING POSTS OR PALLS. Strong upright posts fixed into the ground, for
securing vessels to the landing-place by hawsers or chains. Also, strong
pieces of oak inserted into the deck of a large ship for fastening the
moorings to when alongside a quay.

MOORING-RINGS. Iron swivel rings fixed on piers or buoys, &c., for
securing vessels to.

MOORINGS. Indicated by buoys to which ships are fastened; they are
attached by bridles to heavy anchors and cables laid down in the most
convenient parts of rivers and harbours. They are termed "_swinging_,"
or "_all fours_," depending on whether the ship is secured by the bow
only, or by bow and stern. By their means many more ships are secured in
a certain space than would be possible if they used their own anchors.

MOOR QUARTER-SHOT, TO. To moor quartering, between the two ways of
across and along.

MOOR THE BOAT, TO. To fasten her with two ropes, so that the one shall
counteract the other, and keep her in a steady position.

MOOR WITH A SPRING ON THE CABLE, TO. _See_ SPRING.

MOOTER. A spike, bolt, tree-nail.

MOOTING. In ship-building, making a tree-nail exactly cylindrical to a
given size or diameter, called the _moot_.

MOP. A young whiting.

MOPPAT. An early name for t