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Moor

noun

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.

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss. Synonym: moorland.

verb

(past & past part. moored; pres. part. mooring)

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock. Synonyms: berth, tie up.

Come into or dock at a wharf. Synonyms: berth, wharf.

Secure with cables or ropes.

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"Moor" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceeded through a truly magnificent country to the celebrated Vale of Conway. Then I turned westwards to Capel Curig, and from there walked through a bleak moor amidst wild, sterile hills, and down a gloomy valley with enormous rock walls on either hand, to Bethesda and Bangor, ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants to the next house. But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it. They burned the stacks, and so found a way to force the rich ...

— On the Choice of Books • Thomas Carlyle

... Even on the second day its legs were supple. But the butterflies were dead. A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor, now lost behind a furze bush, then off again helter-skelter in a broiling sun. A fritillary basked on a white stone in the Roman camp. From the valley came the sound of church bells. They were all eating roast beef in Scarborough; for it was ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... Jerome writes of himself, that he had mortified his body to such an extent that he had become like a Moor; still it had been of no avail, and he had dreamed of being at Rome ...

— The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained • Martin Luther

... of his burden fell upon him. The rich walls wheeled away, and before him lay the cold rough moor winding on through life, cut in twain by one thick granite ridge,—here, the Valley of Humiliation; yonder, the Valley of the Shadow of Death. And I know not which be darker,—no, not I. But this I know: in yonder Vale of the Humble stand ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois

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