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 cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.”

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

To cast anchor or become fastened.

To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

“the vessel was moored in the stream”

To secure or fix firmly.