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caorán — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • moor noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.

Senses

caorán is used for these senses in English:

  • moor An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

moor — full definition

  1. noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.
  2. verb To tie up and fix a boat in place with ropes, chains, or an anchor.

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