moor

noun

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.”

   “the ruins yet resting in the wild moors”

   “And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.”

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
3. (historical)A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
4. (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?”

5. (archaic)A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
6. (dated)A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
7. 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.).

verb

1. (intransitive)To cast anchor or become fastened.

   “The vessel moored in the stream.”

2. (transitive)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.”

   “His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.”

3. (transitive)To secure or fix firmly.

name

1. A surname.
2. A surname.