moors
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noun
- 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.”
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb
- To cast anchor or become fastened.
- 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“the vessel was moored in the stream”
- To secure or fix firmly.