moor

IPA: mˈʊr

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
(historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania.
(historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
(archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
(dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
A surname.
A surname from Irish.
An English surname transferred from the given name.

(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
(transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
(transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Examples of "moor" in Sentences

The moor is now home to a herd of goats and over 25 black slugs.
On the moor was a throng of phantoms flitting on Petru's right and left hand, before and behind him.
I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South.
To pray. _v.a. _ To drive all the cattle into one herd in a moor; _to pray the moor_, to search for lost cattle.
The floor of the moor is a thousand feet above the surrounding Devonshire countryside, from which it rises abruptly.
The flowers rain in a gust; it is no racking storm that comes over this green moor, which is afloat, as it would seem, in these waves.
But this year, on this very sunshiny morning, he had announced at breakfast that he could not let us go to what we called our moor-home.
Postbridge itself was in a little hollow near a river, but the back of this inn faced out over the moor, and the moor was a place transformed, a stark landscape of gentle moonlit hills punctuated by patches of black rock or hollows, quiescent and motionless and unreal.