Moor
/mˈʊr/
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Definition
(noun) 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.)
Sentence Examples
Moor the ship at the pier.
Were you in the moor yesterday?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The sailors had to ____ the small wooden boat securely to the dock before the strong storm arrived in the middle of the night.