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Secure in or as if in a berth or dock
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mooring
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mooring may refer to: Mooring (surname) Mooring (North Frisian dialect) , a dialect spoken in the German region of North Frisia Mooring (oceanography) equipped with various devices to measure oceanographic parameters Mooring (watercraft) , any structure ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: moorage , berth , slip ] (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring line ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A place to moor a vessel 2 The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc. 3 (context figuratively English) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Several ships had broken their moorings during the storm. ▪ Stultz headed back to their mooring , a few hundred yards east of the Trepassey town dock. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the water; the boats rocked at their moorings, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"place where a vessel can be moored," early 15c., "process of making a ship secure," verbal noun from moor (v.).\n
Usage examples of mooring.
Some monstrous shape that looked like a windmill off its moorings was falling toward Andy and his mestizo foemen.
There was a jetty at the bottom of the village, a crook of stone quay in whose shelter a couple of dinghies shifted uneasily on outhaul moorings.
Then his prosthetic thumb was over her eyeball, pushing down and out, rending muscles, ripping the hollow globe free from its moorings.
Justen bowed, then grasped the railing to catch his balance as the ship, after rebounding from the pier, shuddered at the end of the taut mooring lines.
Then we painted her until she glistened, sleek and lovely, before we refloated her and took her out to moorings.
Japanese Government, unwilling to cut its last moorings to caution, had so far been resisting the pressure of its military members to join the Axis.
Marghe felt the ale ungluing her world, slipping it free from its moorings.
Ahab sniffing along behind him, the Professor puffed across to the port bow and, to the echo of a rousing cheer, untied the final mooring line and threw it back up onto the dock.
He had been secreted aboard in the middle of the night, carried in soft blankets, while the fires were burning down and the sea winds tugged at the moorings.
They had charted an amphib and had spent week after blissful week hopping from island to island or just mooring out in the gentle seas, soaking up the sun and each other.
Richius had wandered from his rooms and found himself on the mooring docks just outside the palace, watching the catboats slip in and out.
Alex sat back in his rocker, listening to the chief, and admiring the pretty little cove filled with sturdy-looking lobster boats, and small gaff-rigged sloops, and catboats riding at their moorings.
Indians grabbed the mooring ropes and seized the Chukchee interpreter, whom Waxel had brought from Siberia.
Her decolletage, already strained, threatened to burst its moorings altogether.
Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, the picture that follows of the Norse-pilot mooring his boat under the lee of the monster is completed in a line that attunes the mind once more to all the pathos and gloom of those infernal deeps: while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.