WordNet
n. (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring]
Usage examples of "mooring line".
Tolliver had left his two cadets a few meters past the mooring line.
He looped a mooring line over a convenient post, then leapt up onto the pier to secure it.
Instead of running as Cashel expected her to do, or fighting as a man might have done, Aria leaped into the little boat and flipped away the mooring line.
Untying the mooring line, Cugel pushed the punt out into the current of the river.
He planted a magnetic buoy from our gig at his feet, activated it, hooked our mooring line to it.
He whooped in happy realization at her sudden resurrection when Alexander yelled for him to take a mooring line.
Austin pulled the double-ender alongside a ledge and wrapped the mooring line around a rocky knob.
Pitt told Victor of his sighting the out-of-control blimp during the sailboard marathon race, the mad ride while clinging to the mooring line, and the last-second capture only a few feet away from potential disaster, ending with his entry into the gondola.
He tossed the last mooring line out toward the pontoon where it was automatically spooled aboard.