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moorland

noun

Etymology

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

  1. inherited from morelond

Definitions

  1. Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.

    • The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
    • Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.

  2. A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at moorland. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at moorland. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at moorland

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA