OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8244

moor

/mʊə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
brezal • pantano • turbera
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.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 24983

Moor

/mɔː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
moro
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.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 8245

moor

/mʊə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anclar
To cast anchor or become fastened.
The vessel moored in the stream.
amarrar • anclar
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.
His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.
They moored the boat to the wharf.
amarrar • asegurar • atar • fijar
To secure or fix firmly.