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mooring 1. a place for mooring a vessel 2. a permanent anchor, dropped in the water and equipped with a floating buoy, to which vessels can moor How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| My companion stared at the vacant mooring place and then again across the lake. Had but a single mooring given to the power of the tempest eleven short-swords would have cut the others; since, partially moored, the ship was doomed, while free in the tempest it stood at least some slight chance for life. To the right of us I saw the captain of a junk chop away his mooring line with an axe and spring to help his crew at the hoisting of the huge, outlandish lug-sail. |
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