To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. Colliford is higher, right up on the moors Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor
If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river I decided to moor near some tourist boats. = tie up
n (ME mor, fr OE mor; akin MD moer, mire, swamp) chiefly British: an extensive area of open rolling infertile land consisting of sand, rock, or peat usually covered with heather, bracken, coarse grass and sphagnum moss; a boggy area of wasteland usually dominated by grasses and sedges growing in a thick layer of peat