2021-8-4 · 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. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall the ruins yet resting in the wild moors· A game ...