MOOR


Meaning of MOOR in English

vt fig.: to secure, or fix firmly.

2. moor ·vi to cast anchor; to become fast.

3. moor ·noun a game preserve consisting of moorland.

4. moor ·noun any individual of the swarthy races of africa or asia which have adopted the mohammedan religion.

5. moor ·noun one of a mixed race inhabiting morocco, algeria, tunis, and tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

6. moor ·noun an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

7. moor ·vt to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

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