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Moor   /mʊr/   Listen
Moor

noun
1.
One of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century.
2.
Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.  Synonym: moorland.
verb
(past & past part. moored; pres. part. mooring)
1.
Secure in or as if in a berth or dock.  Synonyms: berth, tie up.
2.
Come into or dock at a wharf.  Synonyms: berth, wharf.
3.
Secure with cables or ropes.



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"Moor" Quotes from Famous Books



... crossed the Irthing flood, My merry bard! he hastes, he hastes Up Knorren Moor, through Halegarth Wood, 495 And reaches soon that castle good Which stands and ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... old philanthropist, Whom all his neighbours greet; Who has a smile for every one Whom he may chance to meet— Go to yon pleasant village, On the margin of the moor, And you will hear his praises sung By all the aged poor— The Grand Old Man of Oakworth, ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright
... snow began to fall lightly. The grass was soon covered with a thin white coating which gave a delightfully Alpine aspect to the scene. The prospect was glorious—the sharp, splintered, snow-crested crags stood out in bold relief against the neutral-tinted sky, and the long stretches of moor below them looked soft ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... and down in the shrill wind on the wild moor, while the neglected breakfast cooled within, the captain and the brothers ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens
... own a large estate, Have palace, park, and a' that, And not for birth, but honest worth, Be thrice a man for a' that. And Sawnie, herding on the moor, Who beats his wife and a' that, Is nothing but a brutal boor, Nor half a man ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various


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