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Definition of Moor
1. 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
2. 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.
3. Verb. Come into or dock at a wharf. "The big ship wharfed in the evening"
4. Noun. Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
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. Noun. (context: historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Numidia. ¹
2. Noun. (context: historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries. ¹
3. Noun. (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa. ¹
4. Noun. (context: dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa. ¹
5. Noun. A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.). ¹
6. Noun. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath ¹
7. Noun. a game preserve consisting of moorland ¹
8. Verb. (intransitive) To cast anchor or become fastened. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive nautical) 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''. ¹
10. Verb. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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)
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