A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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moor
Open, uncultivated upland, typically heather-covered — the high ground above the treeline where the soil is thin, the wind is constant, and the sky is the dominant feature. To be on the moor is to be exposed.
Etymology
From Old English “mōr” (wasteland, marsh), related to Old Norse “mórr” and Dutch “moer.” The word originally denoted any uncultivated wasteland before narrowing to its modern sense of open, boggy upland.