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Mooring definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOOR'ING, ppr. Confining to a station by cables or chains.
MOOR'ING, n. In seamen's language, moorings are the anchors, chains and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbor to confine a ship.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, berth, slip]
2: (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring, mooring line]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. an act of making fast a boat or aircraft with lines or anchors 2. a. a place where or an object to which something (as a craft) can be moored b. a device (as a line or chain) by which an object is secured in place 3. an established practice or stabilizing influence ; anchorage 2 — usually used in plural

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a fixed object to which a boat, buoy, etc., is moored. b (often in pl.) a place where a boat etc. is moored. 2 (in pl.) a set of permanent anchors and chains laid down for ships to be moored to.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mooring Moor"ing, 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. --Moore. Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moor Moor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moored; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooring.] [Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See Mar.] 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. --Brougham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(moorings) 1. A mooring is a place where a boat can be tied so that it cannot move away, or the object it is tied to. Free moorings will be available. N-COUNT 2. Moorings are the ropes, chains, and other objects used to moor a boat. Emergency workers fear that the burning ship could slip its moorings. N-PLURAL

Moby Thesaurus

anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, colonization, debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment, dock, dockage, docking, dockyard, dropping anchor, dry dock, embankment, establishment, fixation, foundation, going ashore, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, inauguration, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, jetty, jutty, landfall, landing, landing place, landing stage, lodgment, marina, mole, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, peopling, pier, plantation, population, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, settlement, settling, shipyard, slip, tying up, wharf