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Moor vs Moorer - What's the difference?

moor | moorer |

As nouns the difference between moor and moorer

is that moor is an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath while moorer is (nautical|rare) the person who moors a vessel.

As a verb moor

is to cast anchor or become fastened.

moor

English

Usage notes

(more) is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while (mooer) is homophonous only in those accents.

Etymology 1

(etyl) . See (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • an 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.
  • * Carew
  • In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .
  • a game preserve consisting of moorland
  • Derived terms
    * moorland * moortop
    See also
    * bog * marsh * swamp

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cast anchor or become fastened.
  • (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 .
  • To secure or fix firmly.
  • moorer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical, rare) The person who moors a vessel
  • Anagrams

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