remoor

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.

Anagrams

• Moorer, Romero, moorer, romero, roomer