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- Dictionarymooring/ˈmʊərɪŋ/
noun
- 1. a place where a boat or ship is moored: "they tied up at Water Gypsy's permanent moorings"
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MOORING definition: 1. a place to tie a boat: 2. the ropes or chains that keep a boat from moving away from a…. Learn more.
1. : an act of making fast a boat or aircraft with lines or anchors. 2. a. : a place where or an object to which something (such as a craft) can be moored. b. : a device (such as a line or chain) by which an object is secured in place. 3. : an established practice or stabilizing influence : anchorage sense 2 usually used in plural.
A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel (such as a boat, ship, or amphibious aircraft) may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water.
moorings, a place where a ship, boat, or aircraft may be moored. moor. Usually moorings. one's stability or security: After the death of his wife he lost his moorings.
1. The act or an instance of making fast an aircraft or a vessel, as by a cable or anchor. 2. A place or structure to which a vessel or aircraft can be moored. 3. Equipment, such as anchors or chains, for holding fast a vessel or aircraft.
noun. 1. the act of a person or thing that moors. 2. [often pl.] the lines, cables, etc. by which a ship, etc. is moored. 3. [pl.] a place where a ship, etc. is or can be moored. 4. [often pl.]
A mooring is kind of like a parking lot for boats — it's a place people can keep their dinghies, sailboats, or ships tied up. One complication of owning a boat is that you need to rent a mooring for it, a place to keep it while you're not out on the water.
