WordNet
n. a tower for mooring airships [syn: mooring tower]
Wikipedia
A mooring mast, or mooring tower, is a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship outside of an airship hangar or similar structure. More specifically, a mooring mast is a mast or tower that contains a fitting on its top that allows for the bow of the airship to attach its mooring line to the structure. When it is not necessary or convenient to put an airship into its hangar (or shed) between flights, airships can be moored on the surface of land or water, in the air to one or more wires, or to a mooring mast. After their development mooring masts became the standard approach to mooring airships as considerable manhandling was avoided.
Usage examples of "mooring mast".
Time must have passed rapidly while I carried on this debate with myself for, suddenly, I felt the ship lurch and I realised that we had already let slip from the mooring mast.
In the distance, a disused Mooring Mast stood dark against the skyline.
A wooden chock was pulled from the landing wheel, the nose coupling was released from the mooring mast, and the men holding the bow ropes heaved to one side and let go.
Through the promenade windows, they saw the crackerbox shape of the hangar, the skeletal mooring mast surrounded by tiny figures in white caps.
Beyond the dazzle of lights, where the fight was still continuing, the great length of the airship was not floating freely at the mooring mast any longer.
Lyra realized what the stout mast was for: of course, it was a mooring mast.
She was unwell, and she had been depressed by the death of Airshipman Blier, killed in the fall from Volkenreiter as the airship approached the mooring mast last evening.
Her nose is locked into the only mobile mooring mast in the world.
It looked to be a man-made edifice, yet its height was less than the towers usually built in Erith, not tall enough to be either a watch tower or Mooring Mast.
A bomb had knocked over the old Navy airship mooring mast the Marines used for a control tower.
The crewmen at the mooring mast tripped the release, and eight men on the nose ropes pulled the blimp around.
Hackworth unexpectedly fell asleep before the dromond had evenaway from her mooring mast, and had dreams about theimplements he had seen magnified on Dr.
He could see the airport, with one big dirigible at its mooring mast like an oversized wind sock.
We're flying towards a mooring mast at the centre of a field where other zeppelins lie in various states of airworthiness.