mooring

[ US /ˈmʊɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a place where a craft can be made fast
  2. (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place
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How To Use mooring In A Sentence

  • There are too many nice boats sitting at their moorings, owned by people with no time to sail them.
  • How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch?
  • Tankers have to use floating hoses to connect with a single buoy mooring, which channel oil through subsea hoses to the pipelines.
  • Then came a week of strong northerlies and the Maria V remained on her moorings, tugging at the chain. THE MAIN CAGES
  • The park already has a marina with 100 boat moorings.
  • Frequently afterwards, according to the legend, the boat was seen returning to its moorings and the sound of the oars grinding in the rowlocks could be clearly heard.
  • He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
  • I am here concerned mainly with claims for damage caused by the deposit of silt on the bed of the river in sufficient quantities to interfere with navigation and the use of facilities such as slipways and moorings.
  • The first big winter storm will often deposit half a dozen boats (often with their inadequate moorings still attached) on the beach.
  • The captain piloted the boat into a mooring.
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