Weald vs Moor - What's the difference?
weald | moor |
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
* Tennyson
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.
As a proper noun weald
is (british) the physiographic area in south-east england situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the north and the south downs.As a noun moor is
(historical) a member of an ancient berber people from numidia.weald
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Noun
(en noun)- Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.
Anagrams
* * ----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 .