What does the moor part of, “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.” mean?

Question

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

I thought it may have somthing to do with the docks.

so it's a tall, grassy, scrubby, swampy, black in the day part of Scotland where thieves dispose of bodies and evil and horror lurk?

Answer 1

moor 2 (mr) KEY

NOUN:

A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/moor_2;_ylt=AjklZEBdO_LQKNXjIo41WOCsgMMF

Answer 2

http://images.google.com/images?q=moor&hl=en

There's some photos of moors - definitely not a place I'd like to wander after dark. Some parts of the moors are particularly dangerous because you can easily drown if you wander off the paths, and in Sherlock Holmes' time, of course, there were no well-lit highways to take you across the country.

Of course, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (is that what you're reading), there are other reasons he's warned away from the moor. But even without brigands living in it, it would be a bad place to go to at night, alone, or both.

Answer 3

Are you saying that you don't know what a moor is? Going by the author, it looks like this "moor" is nothing unusual, at least as to what "moor" means. A moor is the Brittish word for a wide-open area, like a prarie, only instead of tall grass, they have very low-growing things, most of which is heath. Here, look at the link below; I went to Wikipedia so you'd have something else.

Answer 4

The moors refers to wild, scrubby parts of Scotland. These vast areas were easy to get lost in and get hurt in.

Answer 5

All this is terribly long. A bit of brevity - please! However, the Labour government has been responsible for a dreadful act of betrayal. Had we been allowed a vote on this issue, it would have fallen and none of this would have come to pass. Ironically for you, it was the Scots who put them in power. And without Scottish MPs they would not have had a majority and the referendum amendment would have been passed in parliament. Not your personal fault of course, but I hope the Scots (and the English for that matter) remember this treachery come the next election.

Answer 6

The moors are a swampy/ boggy place where it was common for murders/ theives to dispose of bodies.

Answer 7

Back in the day, Moor was a term used to denote black people.

Answer 8

A moor is a boggy swamplike wasteland, Baskerville Hall overlooked one, which was where the hound supposedly roamed.

Answer 9

the moors of england wer full of bad people its was a wild area not a good place to go to.like a swamp or very bushy area.

Answer 10

If you're reading Othello, then Suzanne B is right. They're referring to a person of color. ( not sure if Othello was black or biracial)