moor

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Noun

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.
   • 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.

Verb

1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
   • The vessel moored in the stream.
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.
3. To secure or fix firmly.

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