moorside

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the side, slope, or edge of a moor

   A narrow stream had cut a deep hollow into the brown moorside.

A transparent English compound of moor, 'open uncultivated upland,' + side. It denotes the flank, slope, or margin of a moor and also occurs in British place names for settlements beside moorland.

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