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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



... bow, Keith! The hawser arm's right in our mooring holes. I'll go halfway before fastening the charge. Any signs of life ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various
... melancholy jest. During the decade in which Great Britain captured hundreds of American merchant ships in time of peace and impressed more than six thousand American seamen, the United States built two sloops-of-war of eighteen guns and allowed three of her dozen frigates to hasten to decay at their mooring buoys. Officers in the service were underpaid and shamefully treated by the Government. Captain Bainbridge, an officer of distinction, asked for leave that he might earn money to support himself, giving as a reason: ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine
... very tortuous entry to Poole, and the long channel into Christchurch past Hengistbury Head; and the enormous tides of South Wales; and why you often have to beach at Britonferry, and the terrible difficulty of mooring in Great Yarmouth; and the sad changes of Little Yarmouth, and the single black buoy at Calais which is much too far out to be of any use; and how to wait for the tide in the Swin. And also what no book has ever yet given, an exact direction of the way ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... bank, anchored eleven miles above the ship, in 3 fathoms, that being the greatest depth to be found. It was then high water; and the brig being expected to be left dry by the ebb, we prepared for it by mooring, to prevent all chance of settling on the anchor, and hove up the fore and after keels; the new main keel being swelled by the wet, could not be raised, and when it took the ground, the vessel turned about violently and dragged both the anchors, ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
... explaining to him all the various parts of the mechanism and the external structure, at length set the engine working, and the air-ship rose gracefully from the floor and began to sail round the room in the wide circle to which it was confined by its mooring-line, he stared at it for several minutes in wondering silence, following it round and round with his eyes, and then he said in a voice from which he vainly strove to banish the signs of the emotion that ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith


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