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mooring
mooring, a permanent position in harbours and estuaries to which ships can be secured without using their own anchors. For large ships, a mooring comprises two or three large anchors laid out on the bottom and connected with a chain bridle, from the centre of which a length of chain cable leads upwards to a large mooring buoy, usually cylindrical in shape, to the ring of which a ship can lie in safety by shackling on its own cable. The vertical cable is short enough to ensure that the ship swings with the tide within its own length. Smaller moorings for smaller ships may require only one anchor or a block of concrete, with a chain rising to a small buoy. For yachts, a very small buoy, light enough to be easily lifted on board, is attached by a length of rope to a light chain, itself attached to a concrete block. The buoy is brought aboard with a boathook, and the rope is hauled up until the chain reaches the surface and the yacht is then secured with it.
See also berthing hawsers; trot. |
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"mooring." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "mooring." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-mooring.html "mooring." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-mooring.html |
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mooring
moor·ing / ˈmoŏring/ • n. (often moorings) a place where a boat or ship is moored: the boat had been at its usual moorings immediately prior to the storm. ∎ the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored: the great ship slipped its moorings and slid out into the Atlantic. ∎ fig. the ideas, beliefs, or habits to which one is accustomed and from which one gains security or stability: we can lose our spiritual moorings and drift into uncertain waters. |
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"mooring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "mooring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-mooring.html "mooring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-mooring.html |
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mooring
mooring n.
1. (often moorings) a place where a boat or ship is moored. 2. the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored. |
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"mooring." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "mooring." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-mooring.html "mooring." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-mooring.html |
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mooring
mooring •handspring • hamstring • herring
•headspring • wellspring
•airing, ballbearing, bearing, Behring, Bering, caring, daring, fairing, hardwearing, pairing, paring, raring, sparing, Waring, wearing
•talebearing • childbearing
•wayfaring • seafaring • cheeseparing
•time-sharing • mainspring • keyring
•gee-string • watch spring • offspring
•boring, flooring, Goring, riproaring, roaring, scoring, shoring
•drawstring • goalscoring
•outpouring • bowstring • shoestring
•bullring
•auctioneering, clearing, earring, electioneering, engineering, gearing, orienteering, privateering, shearing
•God-fearing • puppeteering
•firing, retiring, uninspiring, untiring, wiring
•during, mooring, reassuring, Turing
•posturing • restructuring
•meandering • rendering
•pondering, wandering
•ordering • maundering
•plundering, thundering, wondering
•offering • suffering • fingering
•scaremongering • hankering
•flickering, Pickering
•tinkering • hammering • glimmering
•unmurmuring • tampering
•whimpering • whispering
•smattering, unflattering
•earthshattering • schoolmastering
•Kettering • self-catering • wittering
•quartering, watering
•faltering • roistering • muttering
•gathering • woolgathering
•blithering
•flavouring (US flavoring), unwavering
•quivering
•manoeuvring (US maneuvering)
•covering • wallcovering
•Goering, stirring, unerring
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"mooring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "mooring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-mooring.html "mooring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-mooring.html |
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