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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in present-day southwest Jordan. According to the Bible, its inhabitants were descendants of Lot. Archaeological exploration has traced settlement in the area to at least the 13th century BC.
  • A city of southeast Utah on the Colorado River. It is a center for recreation in the Canyonlands.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See the extract.

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  • proper noun biblical The name given to the son of Lot through his eldest daughter, in the Hebrew Bible.
  • proper noun The nation that purportedly traced their ancestry to Moab.

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  • I became friends with Frank D. Lemon, an old cowboy from Moab, back in the mid-1980's, when he was 90 years old. His 2 slim volumes of cowboy poetry, Rhymes of a Ranch Hand and More Rhymes of a Ranch Hand share an honored place on the shelves of my favorite books. The books show up on abebooks.com now and again.

    December 17, 2010