°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."
verb
°(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.