moor - Simple English Wiktionary
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- (transitive & intransitive)
To moor a ship or boat is to tie it to a dock, jetty, or hold it in place with an anchor.
- The big ship was moored at the long jetty.
- (countable) (usually plural) A moor is open ground, often with peat soils, swampy, covered in grass or low shrubs.
- The search for the missing boy led them right across the moors.