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Definition of moor:

(n) : an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath; a game preserve consisting of moorland
"a cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step."
(v) : to cast anchor or become fastened; 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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Definition of moor:

(n) : an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath; a game preserve consisting of moorland
"a cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step."
(v) : to cast anchor or become fastened; 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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