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Word: moor
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
- archaic A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
- dated A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
- historical A member of an ancient Berber people from Numidia.
- 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.
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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''.
- intransitive To cast anchor or become fastened.
- transitive To secure or fix firmly.
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