moorland

[English moor (3), s., and land.] Waste, barren land; moor. "Autumn bade the imperial moorlands change Their purples." A. C. Swinburne : Tristram of Lyone e, viii. moôr-păn, moôr-band, s. [English moor , and pan , band .] Geol., .: A band of bog-clay and iron ore at some depth beneath the surface, and constituting a stratum impervious to water.