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Places to secure ships
Answer for the clue "Places to secure ships ", 8 letters:
moorings
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of mooring English) 2 (context nautical English) A place or places where a vessel may be made fast
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1744, "ropes, etc., by which a floating thing is made fast," from mooring . Figurative sense is from 1851.
Usage examples of moorings.
DUNCAN, loosing from her moorings, was getting up steam to reach the fatal coast, and each hour was bringing her nearer.
At first Sharpe thought a ship must have burned at its moorings, then he thought it a rick-fire, then he assumed Bampfylde must have torched the village.