Moor
noun
- 1.
- (a member of a Muslim people living in northwest Africa they invaded and occupied Span in the 8th cent. A.D) ជនជាតិម៉ូវ, នៃជនជាតិម៉ូវ
verb — past tense: moored ; past participle: moored ; present participle: mooring ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to secure a boat or other floating thing, or be secured in place by cables or chains as to a pier or buoy. to moor 4 ship etc) ចត
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ចតនាវា
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
- 2.
- Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
- 3.
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- 4.
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb — past tense: moored ; past participle: moored ; present participle: mooring ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 2.
- (FIGURATIVE) (TRANSITIVE) To secure, or fix firmly.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To cast anchor; to become fast.