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.
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- noun. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
- noun. Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
- noun. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- noun. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
- intransitive verb. To cast anchor; to become fast.
- noun. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- noun. 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
- verb. secure with cables or ropes
"moor the boat"
- verb. come into or dock at a wharf
"the big ship wharfed in the evening"
- verb. secure in or as if in a berth or dock
"tie up the boat"
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