mooring mast
the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
Origin of mooring mast
1- Also called mooring tower.
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How to use mooring mast in a sentence
They saw its two hundred foot mooring mast for dirigibles rising above the eighty-five stories of the main structure.
The White Invaders | Raymond King CummingsThe dirigible is now connected with the head of the mooring mast by a long length of steel wire rope.
Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours | Arthur Whitten BrownOne looked to Quest like a miniature broadcasting tower or a mooring mast for lighter than air craft.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 | Victor RousseauWe climbed the dark and empty stairs, upward into the mooring mast.
The White Invaders | Raymond King Cummings
British Dictionary definitions for mooring mast
a mast or tower to which a balloon or airship may be moored: Also called: mooring tower
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