Moors

Word MOORS
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Definitions and meanings of "Moors"

What do we mean by moors?

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

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The word "moors" in example sentences

The faeries of the world all seem to live in English moors, Scottish highlands, or Irish bogs – at least they do if you read a lot of ‘traditional’ fantasy. ❋ Neth (2009)

When the LDL via its apoprotein moors to the receptor it is internalized by the normal healthy receptor. ❋ Unknown (1985)

So free were we in our isolation upon those Yorkshire moors from the trammels of conventionality (one might almost say, civilization), that I think we should have come to begrudge the ordinary interchange of the neighborly courtesies of life, but for occasional lectures from Mrs. Arkwright, and for going out visiting from time to time. ❋ Unknown (1872)

They explicitly defined the setting as the "moors"-- where "Wuthering Heights" famously took place and where there is indeed a varied landscape of cliffs, bluffs, forests, rivers, and sure why not? waterfalls. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2010)

The moors were a great resource this spring; Emily and Charlotte walked out on them perpetually, “to the great damage of our shoes, but I hope, to the benefit of our health.” ❋ Unknown (2002)

She did not care to know fresh people; she hates strangers; to walk with her bulldog, Keeper, over the moors is her best adventure. ❋ Unknown (1900)

The moors were a great resource this spring; Emily and Charlotte walked out on them perpetually, "to the great damage of our shoes, but I hope, to the benefit of our health." ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Living rough on the moors are a band of gypsies (including Geraldine Chaplin as the wizened crone, Maleva). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rain arrives to give me a helping hand, and the trudge over the moors is a lonely one, without sight of another human being for several hours. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the contrary, the Squire's influence, as a man of family and property in the immediate neighbourhood, who actually kept greyhounds and pointers, and at least talked of hunters and of racers, ascertained him the support of the whole class of bucks, half and whole bred, from the three next counties; and if more inducements were wanting, he could grant his favourites the privilege of shooting over his moors, which is enough to turn the head of a young Scottishman at any time. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Years later, I can still hear that blood-chilling scream it made off in the fog-covered 'moors'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The green is interspersed with rusty vegetation the "moors", and the water rolls and bunches all over the place, like someone simply threw a bucket of water onto the land. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In Yorkshire the roots are known as "moors," which boys dig up and eat in the winter; whilst swine will also devour them greedily. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Harry Potter works, such as moors, Greece, and Cornwall. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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