moor
noun
[ mɔː ]
• a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather.
• "a little town in the moors"
Origin:
Old English mōr, of Germanic origin.
moor
verb
• make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.
• "twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside"
Similar:
tie up,
secure,
make fast,
fix firmly,
fasten,
anchor,
berth,
dock,
lash,
hitch,
Origin:
late Middle English: probably from the Germanic base of Dutch meren .
Moor
noun
• a member of a north-western African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century.
Origin:
from Old French More, via Latin from Greek Mauros ‘inhabitant of Mauretania’.
