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MOOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

Synonyms:

moor; moorland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("moor" is a kind of...):

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

Instance hyponyms:

Marston Moor (a former moor in northern England)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Moor" is a kind of...):

Moslem; Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secure with cables or ropes

Example:

moor the boat

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "moor" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

moorage (the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes)

mooring ((nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come into or dock at a wharf

Example:

the big ship wharfed in the evening

Synonyms:

berth; moor; wharf

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "moor" is one way to...):

dock (come into dock)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock

Example:

tie up the boat

Synonyms:

berth; moor; tie up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "moor" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "moor"):

wharf (moor at a wharf)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mooring (a place where a craft can be made fast)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Theerfur 'tan't my intentions to moor Missis Gummidge 'long with them, but to find a Beein' fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself. (A Beein' signifies, in that dialect, a home, and to fisherate is to provide.) Fur which purpose, said Mr. Peggotty, I means to make her a 'lowance afore I go, as'll leave her pretty comfort'ble.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why should he run wild upon the moor?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Diana and Mary have left you, and Moor House is shut up, and you are so lonely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the van of the gipsies who camped on the moor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was certainly a most singular figure who was approaching us over the moor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very glad he was to get safely past them, for, with their bristling red beards and their fierce blue eyes, they were uneasy men to bargain with upon a lonely moor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may explain, then, that our friend here spent last evening in the company of his two brothers, Owen and George, and of his sister Brenda, at their house of Tredannick Wartha, which is near the old stone cross upon the moor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir, it is a Moor Park, we bought it as a Moor Park, and it cost us—that is, it was a present from Sir Thomas, but I saw the bill—and I know it cost seven shillings, and was charged as a Moor Park.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The horse may be at the bottom of one of the pits or old mines upon the moor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, to go with me to Moor House.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)