moor

noun

1. 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.

   the ruins yet resting in the wild moors

   And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

2. 2

   A game preserve consisting of moorland.

verb

1. 1

   To cast anchor or become fastened.

   The vessel moored in the stream.

2. 2

   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.

   His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.

3. 3

   To secure or fix firmly.

Forms

plural

moors

past tense

moored

past participle

moored

present participle

mooring

third person singular

moors