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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. 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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