Word Finder - moor

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

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

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A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Moor Trees, if you'll pardon the pun.

Elslack Moor somehow contrives to look much bigger than it actually is.

The former Burnley captain led Luton out and received the most incredible reception from the Turf moor crowd.

The greater part of Hanover is a plain with sandhills, heath and moor.

The most familiar example perhaps is the top of Lochnagar, where, at the level of 3500 ft., the traveller finds himself on a broad undulating moor, more than a mile and a half long, sloping gently towards Glen Muick and terminating on the north in a range of granite precipices.

The top of Ben Macdhui stands upon nearly a square mile of moor exceeding 4000 ft.

For once true to their country, they helped Buccleuch to defeat a large English force at Ancram Moor in February 1545, and Henry, seeking help from Cassilis, revived the plot to murder Beaton.

His expostulations perhaps prove him to have been " the best general in his army," but he was dragged northwards to Inverness, and with depleted ranks of starving men, outworn by the fatigue of a long night's march to surprise Cumberland at Nairn, he stood on Culloden Moor in defence of Inverness, his base and only source of supplies (16th of April 11746).

The name Moor is however still applied to the populations speaking Arabic who inhabit the country extending from Morocco to the Senegal, and to the Niger as far east as Timbuktu, i.e.

It was known that, about seven years after the patent for making achromatic object-glasses was granted to Dollond, his claim to the invention was disputed by other instrument-makers, amongst them by a Mr Champness, an instrument-maker of Cornhill, who began to infringe the patent, alleging that John Dollond was not the real inventor, and that such telescopes had been made twentyfive years before the granting of his patent by Mr Moor Hall.

It appears that workmen who had been employed by Mr Moor Hall were examined, and proved that they had made achromatic object-glasses as early as 1733.

The emperor of China, last of the Mongol dynasty, had sent a mission to Delhi, and the Moor was to accompany the return embassy (1342).

The polls were remarkable for the defeat of three ministers - General Botha (by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick) at Pretoria East, Mr Hull (by Sir George Farrar) on the Rand, and Mr Moor in Natal.

Some of the finest crystals occur in the lead-veins of the Carboniferous Limestone series in the north of England, especially at Weardale, Allendale and Alston Moor.

In AD 711 they showed their feelings and appeared on the Moor of Mannan under Bertfrid, Osred's chief ealdorman.

It then crosses the wild expanse of Rannoch Moor on the old drove road to Glen Coe.

Seems a few years ago now that I headed up on Ilkley Moor to locate Islander Jerry Cahill, guitarist extraordinaire.

To the north west of Liskeard lies Bodmin Moor made famous by Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn.

Projects Birkwith Moor This section of trail is designated footpath that crosses wet fragile upland.

We had hoped to moor before Whitchurch Lock but all the moorings seemed full.

Unfortunately the glad tidings also spread under the moor and the earth gnomes got to hear of the farmer's new son.

Sections of lagg remain, typically dominated by purple moor grass.

This estate is the only grouse moor to have breeding hen harriers recorded by the project every year.

Can it really be possible that a spectral, supernatural hound lurks on the barren moor?

The aroma is of heather moor burning but with some quite scented and floral notes, which could include lavender.

We finally moored on the lower Ely visitor moorings, getting the last spot where you could moor a 50ft narrowboat.

In the wettest reaches of Bodmin moor, sphagnum or bog moss can be found.

I remember them being especially partial to the On Ilkley moor version of While Shepherds Watched.

Nobody was sure whether he died from a broken neck or by hanging, either way the moor was well rid of him.

Sky very clear blue coming up from the moor and oak tree and complex network branches were full of black rooks.

Wet slopes have purple moor grass and the wettest areas support heath rush.

Topping the gimmer trade was a gimmer shearling from the Ellis Bros, Ilkley Moor.

In a few places where the moor is not under crofting tenure, the local estate may manage it for grouse shooting.

Bright Beginnings will be holding a sponsored toddle on Woodhouse Moor on June 10 in aid of Barnardo's.

Tamara loved to be out in the sunshine and would often roam the rocky tors and verdant valleys of the moor.

The first pallid hues of daybreak where spreading across the distant tors which signaled the urgency to get off the moor.

Some Dartmoor writers refer to Great hound tor which distinguishes it from the other Hound tor on the north moor.

Weary travelers using the turnpike between Launceston and Bodmin would stay at the Inn after having crossed the wild and treacherous moor.

Inland stretch the stark granite uplands of Bodmin Moor, which provide good walking country.

Westmorland presents continuous succession of mountain, moor, and fell, intersected by deep winding vales, traversed by numerous streams.

Moor Trees Encourages areas of the moor to return to forest wilderness.

In 1791 a canal was constructed from Manchester to Bolton, and by an act of parliament (1792) Bolton Moor was enclosed.

Of Marston Moor he writes, "we never charged but we routed them"; and thereafter his battles were decided by the shock of closed squadrons, the fresh impulse of a second and even a third line, and above all by the unquestioning discipline and complete control over their horses to which he trained his men.

On the way, he was joined by a Moor, who began to jest at some of the Christian doctrines, especially at the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin.

Seized with a longing to pursue and kill the Moor on account of his insulting language, Ignatius, still doubting as to his best course, left the matter to his mule, which at the dividing of the ways took the path to the abbey, leaving the open road which the Moor had taken.

To the north-east of the Dinaric Alps extends a region of mountain, moor and forest, with deeply sunk alluvial basins, which finally expand into the lowlands of the Posavina, or Vale of the Save, forming the southernmost fringe of the Hungarian Alfold.

The army of Prince Rupert assembled on Westhoughton moor before the attack on Bolton.

The extensive Bronze Age reave system on Dartmoor is testament to how long cattle have been grazing the moor.

Your destination Loch Ossian is a small stretch of water at the heart of Rannoch Moor ringed by hills and mountains.

A goal by Glen Little proved scant reward for Burnley 's dominant display against a disappointing Watford at Turf Moor.