Thesaurus: moor

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1. n. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
2. n. Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
3. n. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
4. n. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
5. v. t. To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
6. v. t. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
7. v. i. To cast anchor; to become fast.
8. n. 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
9. n. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
10. v. secure in or as if in a berth or dock
11. v. come into or dock at a wharf
12. v. secure with cables or ropes