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Noun: moor  mūr or mor
  1. Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
    - moorland
Verb: moor  mūr or mor
  1. Secure in or as if in a berth or dock
    "moor the boat"
    - berth, tie up
     
  2. Come into or dock at a wharf
    "the big ship moored in the evening"
    - berth, wharf
     
  3. Secure with cables or ropes
    "moor the boat"
Noun: Moor  mūr
  1. 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

Sounds like: Moor, more, maw

Derived forms: mooring, moored, moors, Moors

See also: moorage, mooring, Moresque

Type of: champaign, dock, fasten, field, fix, Moslem, Muslim, plain, secure

Encyclopedia: Moor Moor, Hungary