| Mooring 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moor. 2. (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings. 3. (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc. 4. (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined. Thesaurus Entries 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 |