moor

verb3

1. •
   To cast anchor or become fastened.

   • The vessel moored in the stream.
2. •
   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.
3. •
   To secure or fix firmly.

noun2

1. •
   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.
2. •
   A game preserve consisting of moorland.

noun5

1. •
   (historical) 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? — 1587
2. •
   (historical) A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
3. •
   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.).
4. •
   (old-fashioned) A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
5. •
   (no longer used) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.