mooring

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: moor=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

mooring, n. 

•  The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The place or condition of a ship thus confined.  [1913 Webster]

  "And the tossed bark in moorings swings."  [1913 Webster]

Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mooring, n.
1 a a fixed object to which a boat, buoy, etc., is moored. b (often in pl.) a place where a boat etc. is moored.
2 (in pl.) a set of permanent anchors and chains laid down for ships to be moored to.

THESAURUS

mooring

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

ROGET THESAURUS

mooring

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.