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mooring

/ˈmʊərɪŋ/

noun
- 1. a place where a boat or ship is moored: "they tied up at Water Gypsy's permanent moorings"
- ▪ the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored: "the great ship slipped her moorings and slid out into the Atlantic"
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Mooring
Permanent structure used to secure a vessel
A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel 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. An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore. As a verb, mooring refe... Wikipedia
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