Moor vs Wilderness - What's the difference?
moor | wilderness |
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
* Carew
a game preserve consisting of moorland
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.
An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.
As nouns the difference between moor and wilderness
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 wilderness is an unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.As a verb moor
is to cast anchor or become fastened.moor
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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)- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor , and the travellers hastened their step.
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .