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Mooring   /mˈʊrɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Mooring  n.  
1.
The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
2.
That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
3.
pl. The place or condition of a ship thus confined. "And the tossed bark in moorings swings."
Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.


verb
Moor  v. t.  (past & past part. moored; pres. part. mooring)  
1.
(Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
2.
Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.


Moor  v. i.  To cast anchor; to become fast. "On oozy ground his galleys moor."





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"Mooring" Quotes from Famous Books



... reference to the circumstance that they were to be fellow-guests at Mrs. Linton's house at Hurley-on-Thames, known as The Mooring. Phyllis had told him that she was about to pay that visit, ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore
... Bobbsey had found out that the houseboat had broken loose from the mooring ropes in the storm, he awakened Captain White, and told him to ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat • Laura Lee Hope
... Master Cap, who is the admiral of our navy, to have a boat in readiness to evacuate the island, if need comes to need. The largest boat that we have left carries a very ample sail; and by hauling it round here, and mooring it under those bushes, there will be a convenient place for a hurried embarkation; and then you'll perceive, pretty Mabel, that it is scarcely fifty yards before we shall be in a channel between ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... he walked about it, running his hands along the edge. It measured about ten feet by fourteen feet, he decided. Then he climbed in and felt of the bottom. At one corner there was a hole. The boat had probably been washed loose from its mooring during some previous flood time, and had come ashore here, striking the rocks. Certainly it had not been in the water for a long time, for the bottom boards were warped, with gaping seams ...
— Tom of the Raiders • Austin Bishop
... oysters. Europeans have proposed to build bungalows on Bobowusua, where they find fresh sea-air, and a little shooting among the red-breasted ring-doves, rails, and green pigeons affecting the vegetation. It appears to us a good place for mooring hulks. The steamers could then run alongside of them and discharge cargo for the coming tramway, while surf-boats carrying two or three tons could load for ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron


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