Moor

noun

/moː/

Word Frequency: 1.8

Definitions

1.nounAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

"A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step."

2.nounA game preserve consisting of moorland.

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