moorland
noun C2- Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
Plural moorlands
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But anon their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.
“They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt.
I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire.
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