moor

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines.
• intransitive verb To fix in place; secure: synonym: fasten.
• intransitive verb To provide with an abiding emotional attachment.
• intransitive verb To secure a vessel or aircraft with lines or anchors.
• intransitive verb To be secured with lines or anchors.
• noun An uncultivated area covered with low-growing vegetation and often high but poorly drained.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of mooring.
• noun A tract of open, untilled, and more or less elevated land, often overrun with heath.
• noun A tract of land on which game is strictly preserved for the purposes of sport.
• noun Any uninclosed ground.
• noun Synonyms Morass, etc. See marsh.
• noun One of a dark race dwelling in Barbary in northern Africa. They derive their name from the ancient Mauri or Mauritanians (see Mauritanian), but the present Moors are a mixed race, chiefly of Arab and Mauritanian origin. The name is applied especially to the dwellers in the cities. The Arabic conquerors of Spain were called Moors.
• noun A dark-colored person generally; a negro; a black.
• noun A bailiff of a farm.
• noun An officer in the Isle of Man who summons the courts for the several districts or sheadings.
• To confine or secure (a ship) in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by lines; specifically, to secure (a ship) by placing the anchors so that she will ride between them, thus occupying the smallest possible space in swinging round.
• To secure; fix firmly.
• To be held by cables or chains.
• To fasten or anchor a boat or ship.
• A dialectal form of more.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains
• transitive verb Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
• 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.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the marsh harrier.
• noun (Geol.) a friable variety of lignite.
• noun (Zoöl.) the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Gallinule.
• noun (Zoöl.) Same as Moor fowl.
• noun (Bot.) a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
• noun (Zoöl.) the marsh harrier.
• noun (Zoöl.) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).
• noun (Zoöl.) the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus).
• noun (Zoöl.) the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).
• noun One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
• noun (Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
• intransitive verb To cast anchor; to become fast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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
• verb intransitive To cast anchor or become fastened.
• 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.
• verb transitive To secure or fix firmly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb secure with cables or ropes
• verb come into or dock at a wharf
• 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 in or as if in a berth or dock