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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 807 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOOR . (1) A See also:

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

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