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Added 8 October 2026

moor

/mʊə/ noun

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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.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.

verb

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

Origin

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

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