moors
Pronunciation:
noun
Definitions
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
Example: A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb
Definitions
To cast anchor or become fastened.
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
Example: the vessel was moored in the stream
To secure or fix firmly.