mooring

1 a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: moorage, berth, slip]

2 (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring line]

English

Verb

mooring

1. present participle of moor

Noun

1. A place to moor a vessel
2. The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.

Mooring may refer to:

• Mooring (watercraft), any device used to hold secure an object by means of cables, anchors, or lines
• Mooring (North Frisian dialect) spoken in Germany
• Arthur Mooring, British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar
• Leeland and Jack Mooring, members of the Christian band Leeland
• The Moorings, New York exclusive guard gated privated community
• Oceanographic mooring equipped with various devices to measure oceanographic parameters

anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, colonization, debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment, dock, dockage, docking, dockyard, dropping anchor, dry dock, embankment, establishment, fixation, foundation, going ashore, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, inauguration, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, jetty, jutty, landfall, landing, landing place, landing stage, lodgment, marina, mole, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, peopling, pier, plantation, population, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, settlement, settling, shipyard, slip, tying up, wharf