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Example sentences for: moor
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Laser Doppler scans (Moor LDI, Moor Instruments Ltd, Axminster, Devon, UK; approximate cost £30 000) of the plantar aspect of both feet were made from a distance of 38 cm.
Moor and mountain use the same word in Gaelic ( monadh ) but more to the botanical point is the probable relation of moor to das meer , `the sea.
In Germany it is called der Trauermantel; in France it is le morio (the moor); the English named it the Camberwell beauty .
Westmoreland, the historic county now subsumed into Cumbria, does not have a name meaning west mere land, despite its proximity to the Lake District, but west moor land, i.e., land of the people living to the west of the moors.
But the Gael of Western Ireland and the Scottish Highlands endured an equally pervasive presence in the form of hundreds of square miles of heather covering moor and mountain to almost the complete extinction of other forms of vegetation.