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means A high, open stretch of poorly drained land, too acidic and peaty for farming, typically carpeted in heather, gorse, and moss.

from From Old English 'mor,' meaning marsh or fen, plus 'land' — a straightforwardly descriptive compound that's barely changed in a thousand years. 'Mor' itself is ancient, with relatives scattered across other Germanic languages, though its deepest roots fade into uncertainty. The word simply named the wet, wild ground it described, long before the Brontës and ramblers gave it a romantic afterlife.