mooring

• By the time the boat had made fast to the tree, which served as a mooring-stake, I reached the wood-yard. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
• We glided gently away down the river, with no one (unless it might have been Gustave, but he said nothing) noticing that we were moving until we were many yards below our mooring-place. —  The Rose of Old St. Louis
• I signaled to him to bring them down the river, and mounting his and leading mine, he was soon at our mooring-place Riding down the soft turf of the shady bridle-path a few minutes later, I heard Cæsar chuckling behind me. —  The Rose of Old St. Louis
• The one they selected tentatively as a mooring for the boat was a large flat-rock projection a few hundred yards north of the Graham pier. —  Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
• When mooring, unmooring, and as may be necessary, cables are temporarily secured by "slips" shackled to eye or ring bolts in the deck (see ANCHOR). —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

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