moor

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   secure with cables or ropes

   moor the boat

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To cast anchor or become fastened.

   The vessel moored in the stream.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.

   [King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary, How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?

6. 6
   noun

   open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

7. 7
   verb

   come into or dock at a wharf

8. 8
   verb

   secure in or as if in a berth or dock

Etymology

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.