moor

Meanings

Noun

• An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
• A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Verb

• 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.
• To secure or fix firmly.

Origin

• From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹. See mere.
• From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn ("to moor, fasten to"), related to *maida-, from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey-. Cognate with Dutch meren ("to moor"), marren.
• Image:Muelle Monroe, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 10.jpg|thumb|Some boats moored off Chicago