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It is they, therefore, as much as anybody, who are to blame for the continuing fiction that Abingdon means town of the abbey, that Boston is named for St. Botolph, that Coventry means place of the abbey, that the second word of Leighton Buzzard represents French beau désert, that Lichfield means field of the corpses, that Maidstone means Medway town, that Morpeth means moor path, that Redruth means town of the Druids, that Southend is so called because it is at the southern end of Essex, that Westminster is a minster west of St. Paul's Cathedral, and so on.
When they wanted to moor the ship, they dropped a heavy object attached to a line, and they termed this anchoring , because the object was called an anchor (rather ankor, anker , or ancre ), When it was time to return to terra firma, they chose a short, appropriate noun to describe that action, to land .
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 .
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.