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mooring
[ moor-ing ]
mooring
/ ˈmɔː-; ˈmʊərɪŋ /
noun
- a place for mooring a vessel
- a permanent anchor, dropped in the water and equipped with a floating buoy, to which vessels can moor
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That is, neither country can afford to anchor its strategy to ideology, long after any mooring in reality has vanished.
Launch and recovery, using a ring-shaped mooring device, is largely automated.
There was enough, at all events, to carry them up past the village and back again to their mooring-place.
At Cantley it is difficult to find a mooring-place, and the northward bank is lined with yachts for half a mile.
No time was lost in bringing up and mooring the vessels, and driving piles into the harbour for their better security.
There was no way of mooring the craft, and she swung back and forth in the wind, making it necessary for Matt to stay aboard.
We arrived at Sydney next day, and within half an hour of mooring the ship I paid the man his wages and turned him adrift.
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