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moor

1. Noun.  (context, historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Numidia.
2. Noun.  (context, historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
3. Noun.  (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
4. Noun.  (context, dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
5. Noun.  A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
6. Noun.  an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
7. Noun.  a game preserve consisting of moorland.
8. Verb.  (intransitive) To cast anchor or become fastened.
9. Verb.  (transitive, nautical) 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''.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.