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moor
moor is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
- 2noun
Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
- 3noun
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- 4noun
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
- 7intransitive verb
To cast anchor; to become fast.
- 8noun
open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
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- 9noun
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
- 10verb
secure with cables or ropes
"moor the boat"
- 11verb
come into or dock at a wharf
"the big ship wharfed in the evening"
- 12verb
secure in or as if in a berth or dock
"tie up the boat"
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