mooring-post

Upon the roadway of the pier, and over against a mooring-post, where the parapet and the pier itself made a needful turn toward the south, there was an equally needful thing, a gully-hole with an iron trap to carry off the rain that fell, or the spray that broke upon the fabric; and the outlet of this gully was in the face of the masonry outside.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Grimsby man shouted from his mooring-post, as the echoes ran along the cliffs, and rolled to and fro in the distance.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

They climbed up on to the ledge where the mooring-post was, and followed the boatman along another ledge that ran at the side of the high, enclosing rocks.

The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

She could see the stars in it, and the sound of its liquid touch to step and mooring-post was almost inaudible.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

They have taken the mallet and driven in the mooring-post; the ship's cable has been put on land.

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

He runs before you, zigzagging over the cobbles, up the sunny street, into the narrow house; out again, running now towards the Duomo, hiding in the porch of San Stefano, where the weavers held their meetings; back again along the wharves; surely he is hiding behind that mooring-post!

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 Filson Young 1907

He runs before you, zigzagging over the cobbles, up the sunny street, into the narrow house; out again, running now towards the Duomo, hiding in the porch of San Stefano, where the weavers held their meetings; back again along the wharves; surely he is hiding behind that mooring-post!

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

He runs before you, zigzagging over the cobbles, up the sunny street, into the narrow house; out again, running now towards the Duomo, hiding in the porch of San Stefano, where the weavers held their meetings; back again along the wharves; surely he is hiding behind that mooring-post!

Christopher Columbus Young, Filson 1906

Instead, he ran swiftly to the mooring-post, took a double turn of the trailing hawser around it and stood by until the straining line snubbed the steamer's bow to the shore.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

With the slackening of the line the steamer began to move out into the stream, and the man at the mooring-post looked around to see what had become of his companion.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893