Word Meanings - ROADSTEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to ROADSTEAD)

• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• MOORBAND
  See MOORPAN
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• MOOR
  Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc. (more info) 1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco,
• NEIGHBORING
  Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.
• ANCHORAGE
  1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
• NEIGHBORLINESS
  The quality or state of being neighborly.
• NEIGHBORHOOD
  1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which
• MOORY
  A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour .
• MOORISH
  Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.
• MOORLAND
  Land consisting of a moor or moors.
• ROADSTEAD
  An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.
• MOORBALL
  A fresh-water alga which forms a globular mass.
• NEIGHBORLY
  Apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• MOORUK
  A species of cassowary found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black;
• SHORELING
  See SHORLING
• MOORPAN
  A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
• UNMOOR
  To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors. To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• EXMOOR
  1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton. 2. A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.
• UNNEIGHBORED
  Being without neigbors. Cowper.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• UNNEIGHBORLY
  Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv.
• OFFSHORE
  From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.