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Encyclopedia Britannica



MOOR

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 807 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MOOR . (1) A heath, an unenclosed stretch of
waste
  or uncultivated
land
 , covered with heather; also such a heath preserved for game-
shooting
 , particularly for the
shooting
  of grouse. The O. Eng. mar, bog, moor, is represented in other Teutonic languages; cf. Dan. mor, Ger. Moor, O. Du. moor, &c.; from an O. Du. adjectival form moerasch comes Eng. morass, a bog. Probably mere, marsh, are not to be connected with these words. (2) The verb " to moor," to fasten a ship or boat to the shore, to another
vessel
 , or to an anchor or buoy, by cables, &c., is probably from the root seen in mod. Du. meren, which also gives the
English
  nautical
term
  " marline," small strands of rope used for lashings or seizings, and " marline-spike," a small
iron
 
tool
  for separating the strands of rope, &c.


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