moor

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

moors

1.
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
2.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

moors

V_ing/Gerund

mooring

V_ed/pp

moored

1.
(intransitive)(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
The vessel moored in the stream.
2.
(transitive)(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.
They moored the boat to the wharf.
3.
(transitive)To secure or fix firmly.

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moor grassAlston MoorBarnby MoorBlea MoorBodmin MoorBuckland in the MoorClayton-le-MoorsCleator MoorClifton MoorCranmoorCrosland MoorDartmoorDraycott in the Moorsmoor-evilEast MoorsExmoorGoss MoorHolme-on-Spalding-MoorHolton le MoorLee Moor

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thumb|Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include môr, muir (from); muir, moer, mōr, mūr, Moor and perhaps also 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹. See mere.