moor

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock.

Come into or dock at a wharf.

Secure with cables or ropes.

“moor the boat”

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.

One of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century.