moor
/mʊ(ə)ɹ/ noun C2- 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.) · A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.· In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Plural moors
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The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr.
I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
The house is banked in with rolling clouds, which rise now and then to show the dreary curves of the moor, with thin, silver veins upon the sides of the hills, and the distant boulders gleaming where the light strikes upon their wet faces.
Look at the noises on the moor at night.
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