| Moor | |
| 1. s. (historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania. | |
| 2. s. (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. | |
| 3. s. (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa. | |
| 4. s. (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa. | |
| 5. s. A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.). | |
| 6. s. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | |
| A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step. | |
| 7. s. a game preserve consisting of moorland | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, nautical) 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 | |
| the vessel was moored in the stream | |
| they moored the boat to the wharf. | |
| 10. v. To secure or fix firmly. | |
