mooring

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In a moment I lost all mooring, all connections with reality, all sense of time, and where the scream of the man I killed in Anderson lasted for seconds, the scream of the earth this time lasted forever.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of making fast an aircraft or a vessel, as by a cable or anchor.
  2. noun A place or structure to which a vessel or aircraft can be moored.
  3. noun Equipment, such as anchors or chains, for holding fast a vessel or an aircraft.
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  • She lay on her stomach and shortened the mooring, and made sure the knot was fast. —  One Corpse Too Many
  • In a moment I lost all mooring, all connections with reality, all sense of time, and where the scream of the man I killed in Anderson lasted for seconds, the scream of the earth this time lasted forever. —  Enjoyment
  • WARNER: Well, I simply said, very carefully, that this ship was part of what you call the mooring team that come and are supplied by the harbors throughout the world. —  CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Families of U.S.S. Cole Crew Await Final Word on Missing Persons - October 12, 2000
  • My passengers noticed straight away that the slab had been used many times before, and that my mooring was an iron ring long set into the rock, but then, campsites were a rarity amid the steep slopes, cliffs, and streams of this area. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • A simple mooring is a timber tethered to a rock. —  Inconstant Star
 

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