moor

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.

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

To cast anchor or become fastened.

The vessel moored in the stream.

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.

They moored the boat to the wharf.

His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.

To secure or fix firmly.

A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.

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.

[King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary, How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?

A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.

A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.

A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).