Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Large blocks of hard wood fastened in a snip's portholes, with scores in them to hold the moorings.
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Wharf rats, a foot long -- hundreds of them -- going up the mooring-chains, the cable to the dock, the lines, the fenders, and the gangway, some over the rail, others in through the mooring-chocks.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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