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Moor

(m/U/r )

one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century(noun.person)

source: wordnet30
open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss(noun.object)

Synonym:
moorland

source: wordnet30
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.(noun)

source: webster1913
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.(noun)

source: webster1913

secure in or as if in a berth or dock(verb.contact)

Synonym:
berth, tie up

source: wordnet30
come into or dock at a wharf(verb.contact)

Synonym:
berth, wharf

source: wordnet30
secure with cables or ropes(verb.contact)

Example:
Moor the boat.

source: wordnet30
To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.(verb)

source: webster1913
To cast anchor; to become fast.(verb)

source: webster1913

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