moors in English

noun
1
a tract of open uncultivated upland; a heath.
This wide extent of habitats includes upland moors , grassy or boggy open areas in forests and damp grasslands and traditionally managed hayfields particularly in river valleys.
verb
1
make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.
twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pier
synonyms:tie upsecuremake fastfix firmlyanchorberthdock
noun
1
a member of a northwestern African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century.
Spain does not deny its occupation by the Muslim Moors .

Use "moors" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "moors" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "moors", or refer to the context using the word "moors" in the English Dictionary.

1. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.

2. Only 25 percent of nests on managed grouse moors were successful compared with 75 percent on unmanaged moors.

3. The castle on the moors, Edgar.

4. They kept people off their grouse moors.

5. His grouse moors stretched further than she could see.

6. In England’s famous ‘Moors Trial,’ a husband and wife were convicted of torturing, sexually abusing and murdering three young children and burying the bodies on the moors.

7. We went for a ramble over the moors.

8. Colliford is higher, right up on the moors.

9. Asphyxiated song from the album Moors is released on Oct 2014

10. I came over the moors through the snow to the Grange.

11. He gazed out over the emptiness of the moors.

12. Alcazar, a castle or fortress of the Spanish Moors.

13. The moors looked bleak and desolate in the rain.

14. Breeding on tundra and moors, wintering mainly on coasts.

15. Will he consider sympathetically inclusion of the Penwith moors in that list?

16. The three major groups were the Sinhalese, Tamils and Moors.

17. 17 The moors looked bleak and desolate in the rain.

18. She wasn't very sensibly dressed for hiking across the moors.

19. The party had been to the grouse moors that morning.

20. The modelling of these moors - a reference to the family crest - repays study.

21. The population is a mixture of Sinhalese, Tamil and the Moors.

22. St James also appears on a white charger at Compostela to rout the Moors.

23. The open moors now bore the names and the marks of their Covenant spirit.

24. What does Burnoose mean? A long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors

25. Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity.

26. Borders of woodland and moorland, moors, steppes and swampy heaths with scattered trees, especially birches and pines.

27. An eleventh-century manuscript's depiction of war between Christians and Moors, and its inevitable outcome - baptism or execution.

28. For in the other kingdom, the Moors lived every manner of strange and wonderful creature.

29. This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north.

30. The lakes, rivers, and streams complement the park’s three major habitats —dunes, moors, and pine forest.

31. 21 He ruled with justice and mercy, befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence.

32. This Cyclops exists in Norrath, on the Island of the Cyclops in The Moors of Ykesha

33. 21 Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity.

34. The “Constable Series” is a set of novels by Nicholas Rhea, a cozy mystery and mystery author from North York Moors

35. A Burnous is a cloak-like garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs and Moors

36. Burnoose definition: a long cloak with a hood , worn by Arabs and Moors Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

37. I hope this will be a lesson to you to make no more rash journeys on these moors.

38. The gunboats now came up like a flock of hawks, and soon the Moors were Clambering over the rails

39. Burnoose definition: a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors synonyms: burnous, burnouse, cloak antonyms: undergarment, uncover

40. So-called Blackamoors, or Black Moors, were Black servants, originally enslaved North Africans, who worked in wealthy European households from the 15th-18th centuries

41. The shrine marks the spot where the Asturians defeated the Moors in the year 722, starting the long process of the "Reconquest" of spain for Christianity, that was only completed in 1492 with the final expulsion of the Moors from their last fief, the caliphate of Granada

42. These Alcazars originated from the time when Spain was occupied by Moors from North Africa – the period from around 711-1492

43. “Curlews are instantly recognisable on winter estuaries or summer moors by their striking long, curved beak, long legs and evocative call,” said RSPB’s Dr Daniel Hayhow.

44. The Visigoths renamed it Paca until the invasion of the Moors in the 8th century where the definitive name Beja was declared

45. 20 She was a vibrant and passionate woman who had revealed the intensity of her love for him up on the moors.

46. Others offend in overmuch fasting: pining adays, saith [1435] Guianerius, and waking Anights, as many Moors and Turks in these our times do.

47. The spellbound Moors and Algarve Bewitchings Back in 1898, local priest, lawyer and researcher Franciso Xavier de Ataide Oliveira published a collection of Moorish legends from the Algarve

48. The Curlew is the largest European wading bird, instantly recognisable on winter estuaries or summer moors by its long, downcurved bill, brown upperparts, long legs and evocative call

49. Burnoose: 1 n a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors Synonyms: burnous , burnouse Type of: cloak a loose outer garment

50. A long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors Familiarity information: Burnous used as a noun is very rare.