MOOR

Moor

Moor may refer to: Moors, several historic and modern populations from North Africa, Sri Lankan Moor, a minority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, Marakkar, a Muslim minority ethnic group of India, Mississippi, A state in the United States, Moor, a word for a fen or marsh, now mostly applied to flat areas of former marshland in Somerset, England, Moor or moorland, an uncultivated upland area that is characterized by low growing vegetation on acidic soils, Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary, The Moor, a street in Sheffield, England, The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England, Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England, situated ...

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moor

Noun

  1. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
    A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
  2. a game preserve consisting of moorland

Verb

  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
  3. To secure or fix firmly.


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