A Scots and Northern English word for a moor — an area of open, uncultivated upland with peaty or boggy soil, heather, and rough grass. It appears frequently in Scottish place names (e.g., Muirhead, Muirkirk) and in Scottish literature. The word has a bleak, windswept resonance deeply embedded in the Scottish landscape imagination.
They walked across the muir for an hour before the farmhouse came into view.
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(especially, Scotland, Northern England) A moor.
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