mooring

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Other forms: moorings

A mooring is the place a boat is tied up, and the ropes that hold it. Leave the mooring, a permanent mooring, slip the moorings.

A mooring in a popular harbour is worth a great deal and is often waited on for years. The figurative plural is common: somebody cut loose from their moorings has lost what held them steady.

Definitions of mooring

1nounmooringThe place a boat is tied up, and the ropes that hold it.C1
“The boat broke free from its mooring during the storm.”

mooring is a place.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*móri
Proto-Germanic
*mōraz
Proto-West Germanic
*mōr
Old English
mōr
Middle English
mor
English
moor
English, today
mooring

moor comes from Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic mōr, from Proto-Germanic mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹. See mere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sea & Sailing

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mooring in the wild

A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water.
Mooring
As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring.
Mooring
A hawser () is a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship.
Hawser
Several types of single point mooring are in use.
Single buoy mooring
Swan Island is a private mooring island in the Thames at Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England.
Swan Island, London

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