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Definition of Moor
1. Noun. 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. Verb. Secure in or as if in a berth or dock. "Tie up the boat"
Specialized synonyms: Wharf
Generic synonyms: Fasten, Fix, Secure
Derivative terms: Berth, Mooring
3. Noun. Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
4. Verb. Come into or dock at a wharf. "The big ship wharfed in the evening"
5. Verb. Secure with cables or ropes. "Moor the boat"
Definition of Moor
1. n. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
2. n. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. i. To cast anchor; to become fast.
Definition of Moor
1. to secure a vessel by means of cables [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Moor
1. Chiefly British term: an extensive area of open rolling infertile land consisting of sand, rock, or peat usually covered with heather, bracken, coarse grass and sphagnum moss, a boggy area of wasteland usually dominated by grasses and sedges growing in a thick layer of peat. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moor
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