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moor noun1.
[Old English mor = Old Saxon mor marsh, Middle & mod. Dutch moer, Middle & mod. Low German mor (German Moor), Old High German muor, from Germanic, perh. rel. to MERE noun1.]
An open area of uncultivated land; esp. such an area covered in heather etc.; a heath. Also, an area of such land preserved for shooting. OE.
Dartmoor, Exmoor, Otmoor, etc.
J. Gardam They sped across the moor among the dotted farms. D. Ayerst With the 'glorious twelfth' only three days off politicians were deserting Westminster for the grouse moors.
A marsh, a fen. Now dial. & US. ME.
The soil of which moorland consists; peat. Scot. & dial. L16.
Phrases: the Moor slang Dartmoor Prison on Dartmoor, SW England.
Comb.: moor-band (pan) an iron pan found in moorland or below a bog; moor-bird a grouse, esp. a red grouse; moorburn Scot. the seasonal burning of heather etc. on a moor to make way for new growth; moor-coal a friable variety of lignite; moorcock a male red grouse; (occas.) a blackcock; moor-evil dial. = moor-sickness below; moorfowl = moor-bird above; moor game (red) grouse; moor-grass (a) (more fully purple moor-grass) a coarse grass, Molinia caerulea, often dominant in moorland and heath; (b) blue moor-grass, a grass of limestone pasture esp. in northern England, Sesleria caerulea; moor-hag = peat-hag s.v. PEAT noun1; moor-head the highest part of a moor; moor-ill dial. = moor-sickness below; moorlog peat, esp. as dredged from the North Sea; moorman noun1 (a) an official who has charge of a moor; (b) a person who lives on a moor; moor-palm(s) dial. (a) the catkins of any of several moorland willows, esp. Salix repens; (b) the flowering spikelets of cotton-grass, Eriophorum vaginatum; moor-pan = moor-band (pan) above; moor-sick adjective (dial.) affected with moor-sickness; moor-sickness dial. a wasting disease of sheep and cattle, esp. liver fluke; moorsman a person who lives on moors; a person familiar with moors; moorstone (a slab or piece of) a coarse granite found esp. in Cornwall.