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mooring buoy
noun
- a buoy to which ships or boats can be moored.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mooring buoy1
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Example Sentences
Indeed, the Lapwing dared not approach nearer than the Trinity mooring buoy.
Five months later the Almena lay at an outer mooring-buoy in Callao Roads, again ready for sea, but waiting.
The mere fact that I had left my tender tied to the mooring buoy might not be understood.
A mooring buoy floated in the channel; and across the channel lay a waste of sand, dotted with shallow pools.
The white mooring-buoy swam past and the little vessel heeled as Bascom swung her sharply to the southwards.
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