Mooring

Quick meaning: Mooring is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of moor.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of moor.

More Meanings

1. A place to moor a vessel.
2. The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
3. (figuratively) Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.

Example Sentences

On the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, the Pier Station at New Holland was put out of action when the ferry boat plying to and from Hull broke loose from its moorings.

Then did the comet break loose from his moorings and the eclipse roamed about the sky, and down on the earth did Death’s three children—Famine, Pestilence, and Drought—come out to feed.

On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.

1898, Coates, Florence Earle, song: "Friendship from its Moorings Strays" Friendship from its moorings strays, Love binds fast together; Friendship is for balmy days, Love for stormy weather.

Word Forms

• moorings

Synonyms for mooring

Depending on context, synonyms include slip, berth, docking, moorage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moorage, berth, slip, docking, berthage, anchorage.

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