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Moorage

Moorage \Moor"age\, n. A place for mooring.

Wiktionary
moorage

n. 1 The act of mooring. 2 A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored. 3 The fee for mooring.

WordNet
moorage
  1. n. a fee for mooring

  2. a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, berth, slip]

  3. the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes [syn: docking, tying up]

Usage examples of "moorage".

Canal was built in an effort to re-establish the lucrative link with the river trade, as well as four deep lakestwo within the old river bed itselffor moorage and berths.

Vancouver, which besides having the most scenic airship moorage in the world, boasted a sizable Adantan clave.

I loosed my legs from their moorage and carefully wormed my arms into the next carapace fold higher up.

It was dwarfed on every side by larger, taller, longer ships, dwarfed in turn by the expanse of the moorage like a mat of floating weed.

Keikano thrust the chosen raft into the languid current, holding its moorage rope as he walked downstream.

And once we put you ashore, we would have no choice but to let the current carry us down to the Great Mutar, for there is no safe moorage over there now that the river has risen.

His starships were in low-orbit moorage, four thousand kilometers out.

It was no more spectacular than a low-orbit moorage of in-system freighters, or some local construction job.

And the moaning sound that still filled the auditorium must be the moorage webbing, twisting beneath the temp.

A sailboat had just cast off from the arbored moorage down the hill from them.

He turned away from them and looked down the footpath, past the lodge, to the moorage and the lake beyond.

Most of the guests were following, curious to see what this moorage could really be.

I closed my eyes and opened them again, imagining myself in an earlier time, when masked women in wide cloaks stepped into gondolas, the gondolas that now rode emptily in their moorage in the wide basin to our left.

One Trader rose and asked if Wharf Seven could be repaired first, as it offered the best moorage for deep draft ships.

I save enough in moorage fees to offset more than the cost of keeping the place up.