moors

4 definitions • 4 examples

an open area of hills covered with rough grass, especially in Britain:

the Yorkshire moors

to tie a boat so that it stays in the same place:

We moored further up the river.

We moored the boat to a large tree root.

a member of the group of Muslim people from North Africa who ruled in Spain and Portugal between 711 and 1492

to attach a boat or ship to something on land or to the surface under the water to keep it in place:

[ I/T ] We moored (the boat) further up the river.