mooringn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmʊərɪŋ/,

/ˈmɔːrɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmʊrɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English moryng, 1500s moring, 1600s moreing, 1600s– mooring, 1700s moaring, 1700s morrowing (irregular).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moor v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < moor v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of securing a boat or other vessel in a particular place.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun]

mooring1378

moorage1641

berthing1800

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring

mooring1378

tyage1504

1378–81 in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 66 Et in ij. grossis bastis empt' pro moryng dicte nauis et ibidem expend' lxvj.s. viij.d.

1420 Foreign Accts. 3 Henry VI (Public Rec. Office) G/1 (MED) In..ij Cordis vocatis bastes pro moryng.

1485 [see mooring chain n. at Compounds 1].

1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 162 The Bryngyng the seyd Ship to the Shore And for moryng of hyre there.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 To haue..the command of the long boate, for..warping, towing, and moreing.

1797 E. Burke Third Let. toMember Present Parl. 155 There is much want of room for the safe and convenient mooring of vessels, and constant access to them.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 598/1 One of the objections made to slack mooring is that turns are formed below water where they are not visible.

1992 Holiday Which? May 137/1 Mooring is the one manoeuvre that, if you're a little under-confident, remains a nerve-racking experience.

b. mooring out n. the action of mooring an airship. Chiefly attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [adjective] > at which airship may be moored

mooring out1934

1934 J. A. Sinclair Airships in Peace & War 190 The mooring-out station was more of a war measure.

1971 Country Life 6 May 1087/1 On flying from our base in Anglesey, or our mooring-out ground at Malahide, [etc.].

a. In plural. Ropes, chains, cables, etc., by which a floating object is moored.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored

moorings1600

pawl1717

mooring post1779

mooring1809

mooring block1809

mooring anchor1820

ryepeck1834

snub-post1875

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel

fast1440

mooring chain1485

guess-warp1495

mooring1681

gift-rope1704

moorings1750

mooring-cablea1785

steady-fast1867

1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 851 We still expected the cutting of our morings.

1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 192 The Prize drove off from her Moorings.

1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Moarings, are laid out in Harbour, and consists of Claws, Pendant Chains, Cables [etc.].

1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. v. 38 Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/2 Mushroom anchors first proposed for ships, are now only used for moorings.

1889 Catholic News 27 July 8/6 The huge Rodney fouled a lightship the other day and broke her moorings.

1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds lv. 122 Why, then, is something in me restless, like a little ship that tugs at her moorings?

1948 A. Nin Under Glass Bell 13 The houseboat broke its moorings and floated away.

1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea (1988) v. 426 The engine coughed; two deckhands slipped the moorings and leapt aboard, another cranking up the anchor with the windlass.

b. In singular.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel

fast1440

mooring chain1485

guess-warp1495

mooring1681

gift-rope1704

moorings1750

mooring-cablea1785

steady-fast1867

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored

moorings1600

pawl1717

mooring post1779

mooring1809

mooring block1809

mooring anchor1820

ryepeck1834

snub-post1875

1681 Inventory 28 Aug. in W. M. Sargent York Deeds (Maine) (1889) V. i. f. 7 One Moreing & Anker.

1775 N. D. Falck Philos. Diss. Diving Vessel 51 Slacking a little of the mooring.

1809 Ld. Byron Lines to Mr. Hodgson 17 Now our boatmen quit their mooring, And all hands must ply the oar.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 256 Wrecked by the fall of their icy mooring.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 451/1 To one end of the line a chain-shot was attached by way of mooring.

1894 Outing 23 401/1 Mainsail, foresail and gaff-topsail were hoisted, and her jib ready to hoist as soon as the mooring was dropped.

1934 J. A. Sinclair Airships in Peace & War ix. 186 A three-wire mooring was prepared at Pulham.

1992 L. Gordon Shared Lives vii. 147 The yacht got free of its mooring and drifted towards the heaving sea beyond the harbour.

c. In extended use (in singular and plural).

ΚΠ

1801 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1939) I. 456 Without..cash we cannot hold to our moorings.

1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. 160 Having broken from all moral moorings, he will find himself adrift.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1858) II. xiv. 184 The tumultuous passions..subsided... The tempest which had driven him from his domestic mooring was followed by a fitful calm.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 507 When..the pylorus is dragged from its moorings.

1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds vii. 158 So powerful was her voice that a picture of the late Lord Cabstanleigh..slipped from its moorings.

1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 67 (stage direct.) His hiccups stop, his eyes widen in panic. His bosoms have torn loose from their moorings again.

1988 Ice Hockey News Rev. 19 Nov. 20/1 Watson tipped the puck over the goal line but it was ruled out due to the cage being off its moorings.

3. A place in or along a river, canal, or harbour where a vessel may be moored. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > place for

moorage1641

mooring1649

1649 Modest Narr. Intelligence No. 16. 125 I..am haling her off to her mooring: I have some defect about my rudder, and the sige of my ship.

1687 in W. D. Macray Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ (1842) v. i. 182 A difference between the officers of the navy and sir Phineas Pett, concerning the present state of the moorings of the King's ships at Chatham.

1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 65 Nearly the same time will be elapsed before the..ship..can be secured at her moorings.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 300 Some of the new men of war, indeed, were so rotten that, unless speedily repaired, they would go down at their moorings.

1863 H. W. Longfellow Landlord's Tale iii, in Tales Wayside Inn 19 Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim i. 6 The old training-ship chained to her moorings quivered all over, bowing gently head to wind.

1992 Times 31 Oct. 19/7 An avid sailor, he had a 43 ft yacht built in Taiwan and shipped to a mooring in the south of France.

Compounds

C1.

mooring boat n.

ΚΠ

1957 D. G. O. Baillie Sea Affair xii. 227 The Arab mooring-boat crews were ready at the buoys to cast off our lines.

1967 S. Waters Indentures Indorsed xxvi. 153 The two ships were almost alongside each other with only a small mooring boat containing five men between them.

mooring bridle n.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 484 Mooring-bridle, the fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port.

1919 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (Royal Aeronaut. Soc.) 58 Mooring bridle, a rigging passing between two points from a fitting in the length of which the mooring rope is attached.

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 474/2 Mooring bridle, the chains or fasts attached to permanent moorings and taken into the hawse holes.

mooring buoy n.

ΚΠ

1809 Naval Chron. 24 23 She ran against one of the mooring buoys.

1979 North Sea Progress (Shell Internat. Petroleum Company) 6 The field will be served by tankers at single-point mooring buoys to take the oil production.

mooring-cable n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel

fast1440

mooring chain1485

guess-warp1495

mooring1681

gift-rope1704

moorings1750

mooring-cablea1785

steady-fast1867

a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) II. 107 Each mast was pliant to the raging gust, The mooring cable groan'd.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/1 A large buoy is attached to the end of a mooring cable.

1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy iii. 270/1 A mine mooring-cable fouled one of the forward hydroplanes.

mooring chain n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel

fast1440

mooring chain1485

guess-warp1495

mooring1681

gift-rope1704

moorings1750

mooring-cablea1785

steady-fast1867

1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 38 Chenes for the Loves..j, Moryng chenes..ij.

1794 Rigging & Sea. I. 164 Chain-boat, a large boat fitted with a davit over its stem, and two windlasses, one forward, and the other aft, in the inside. It is used for getting up mooring-chains, anchors, etc.

1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 221 (advt.) Mooring chains, shackles and fittings;..anchors.

mooring-ground n.

ΚΠ

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §282 Owing to..the still inherent property of our vessel as a slow sailer, it was not till eight the next morning that we came to..our mooring ground.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 576 Can you not see..that where one drags the anchor so easily, the mooring-ground was never good?

1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 123 There were twenty and more of Breton sail Fast anchored on one mooring-ground.

mooring hook n.

ΚΠ

1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster viii. 97 I..cast the painter around the mooring-hook.

1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 46/3 Loads, measured by a strain gauge in the centre of each mooring hook, are displayed..on a monitor in the harbour office.

† mooring-port n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Bridles..whose upper ends are drawn into the ship, at the mooring-ports.

mooring rope n.

ΚΠ

1420–1 in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 68 Moryngropes.

1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil xxii. 122 Five minutes more saw them embarked in the sloop under a fitting guard, the mooring ropes cut, and the vessel drifting with sail and oar toward the other bank.

1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 41/3 You need to be there at the top of a neap tide to avoid constantly having to adjust your mooring ropes.

mooring stone n.

ΚΠ

1805 Ann. Reg. 1803 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 468/2 The mooring-stones remained perfectly steady as did all the ships that were properly moored.

1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles lxvi. 576 The mooring stone had its particular berth in the boat.

C2.

mooring anchor n. any of the fixed anchors placed at the bottom of a harbour, to which vessels are moored.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored

moorings1600

pawl1717

mooring post1779

mooring1809

mooring block1809

mooring anchor1820

ryepeck1834

snub-post1875

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 257 For the purpose of placing a mooring anchor.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/1 Mooring anchors are not limited by considerations of weight, &c., as other anchors are... Mooring anchors may therefore be of stone..or of cast iron.

mooring block n. a block of cast iron or concrete to which a vessel is moored.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored

moorings1600

pawl1717

mooring post1779

mooring1809

mooring block1809

mooring anchor1820

ryepeck1834

snub-post1875

1809 in Trans. Soc. Arts (1811) 28 173 Many of the line-of-battle ships..are moored with Mr. Hemman's cast-iron mooring-blocks.

1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Mooring-block, a sort of cast iron anchor, about 150 cwt. used in some of his Majesty's ports, for riding ships by.

1962 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 7 264 The gage may be mounted in a boat and heavy walled ¹/ ₈-in. I.D. rubber pressure tubing may be led down the mooring rope to connect it with an orific [sic] in the mooring block.

mooring mast n. a strong upright structure to which an airship is moored.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > mooring mast for airship

mooring mast1919

airmast1927

1919 Aeronaut. Techn. Rep. 1912–3 25 The mooring mast facilitates the employment of the airship in much rougher weather.

1929 Times 2 Nov. 9/4 R 101..was walked over to the mast at dawn..in 20 minutes, was at once coupled up to the mooring-mast cable and then waited patiently..for the actual mooring.

1972 Daily Tel. 26 June 5/1 Europa was in the air for the first time since its mooring mast snapped and the airship careered for threequarters of a mile.

mooring point n. (a) a point on a vessel or airship to which mooring ropes or cables are attached; (b) a designated place for mooring a vessel.

ΚΠ

1919 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (Royal Aeronaut. Soc.) 59 Mooring point, a specially strengthened point in the ship's structure from which the mooring attachments are led.

1929 E. F. Spanner About Airships iii. ii. 176 The casting in the hull right forward (where the mooring-point is attached) pulled out.

1989 I. Bunyan R34 15 Things became critical when the main mooring point in the bows gave way and it looked as if the ship might be blown away as her nose jerked up.

2000 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Electronic ed.) 21 July We want to make a separate mooring point. It will float some distance from the shore, and the clients will be delivered by boat.

mooring post n. (a) a strong upright post fixed in the ground for mooring a vessel; (b) a piece of wood fixed in the deck of a vessel to which mooring ropes are attached.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored

moorings1600

pawl1717

mooring post1779

mooring1809

mooring block1809

mooring anchor1820

ryepeck1834

snub-post1875

1779 J. Smeaton Report (1812) II. 144 I would advise..that a very strong mooring-post be fixed upon the land.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 484 Mooring posts,..strong pieces of oak inserted into the deck of a large ship for fastening the moorings to when alongside a quay.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2231/2 Snub-post, a form of bitt or mooring-post on a raft or canal-boat.

1991 Times 19 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 32/1 The dried salted cod they tenderise in the lagoon by bashing it against the stone mooring posts before treating it with light olive oil.

mooring swivel n. a swivel used to shackle two mooring chains together to prevent them becoming twisted.

ΚΠ

1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 323 A mooring swivel is an especially useful article.

1981 B. Webb Schult's Sailing Dict. 180/2 Mooring swivels are essential, especially if there is more than one anchor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mooring
释义	mooringn.¹ Brit. /ˈmʊərɪŋ/, /ˈmɔːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmʊrɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English moryng, 1500s moring, 1600s moreing, 1600s– mooring, 1700s moaring, 1700s morrowing (irregular). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moor v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < moor v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of securing a boat or other vessel in a particular place. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] mooring1378 moorage1641 berthing1800 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring mooring1378 tyage1504 1378–81 in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 66 Et in ij. grossis bastis empt' pro moryng dicte nauis et ibidem expend' lxvj.s. viij.d. 1420 Foreign Accts. 3 Henry VI (Public Rec. Office) G/1 (MED) In..ij Cordis vocatis bastes pro moryng. 1485 [see mooring chain n. at Compounds 1]. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 162 The Bryngyng the seyd Ship to the Shore And for moryng of hyre there. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 To haue..the command of the long boate, for..warping, towing, and moreing. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. toMember Present Parl. 155 There is much want of room for the safe and convenient mooring of vessels, and constant access to them. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 598/1 One of the objections made to slack mooring is that turns are formed below water where they are not visible. 1992 Holiday Which? May 137/1 Mooring is the one manoeuvre that, if you're a little under-confident, remains a nerve-racking experience. b. mooring out n. the action of mooring an airship. Chiefly attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [adjective] > at which airship may be moored mooring out1934 1934 J. A. Sinclair Airships in Peace & War 190 The mooring-out station was more of a war measure. 1971 Country Life 6 May 1087/1 On flying from our base in Anglesey, or our mooring-out ground at Malahide, [etc.]. 2. a. In plural. Ropes, chains, cables, etc., by which a floating object is moored. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored moorings1600 pawl1717 mooring post1779 mooring1809 mooring block1809 mooring anchor1820 ryepeck1834 snub-post1875 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel fast1440 mooring chain1485 guess-warp1495 mooring1681 gift-rope1704 moorings1750 mooring-cablea1785 steady-fast1867 1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 851 We still expected the cutting of our morings. 1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 192 The Prize drove off from her Moorings. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Moarings, are laid out in Harbour, and consists of Claws, Pendant Chains, Cables [etc.]. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. v. 38 Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/2 Mushroom anchors first proposed for ships, are now only used for moorings. 1889 Catholic News 27 July 8/6 The huge Rodney fouled a lightship the other day and broke her moorings. 1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds lv. 122 Why, then, is something in me restless, like a little ship that tugs at her moorings? 1948 A. Nin Under Glass Bell 13 The houseboat broke its moorings and floated away. 1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea (1988) v. 426 The engine coughed; two deckhands slipped the moorings and leapt aboard, another cranking up the anchor with the windlass. b. In singular. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel fast1440 mooring chain1485 guess-warp1495 mooring1681 gift-rope1704 moorings1750 mooring-cablea1785 steady-fast1867 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored moorings1600 pawl1717 mooring post1779 mooring1809 mooring block1809 mooring anchor1820 ryepeck1834 snub-post1875 1681 Inventory 28 Aug. in W. M. Sargent York Deeds (Maine) (1889) V. i. f. 7 One Moreing & Anker. 1775 N. D. Falck Philos. Diss. Diving Vessel 51 Slacking a little of the mooring. 1809 Ld. Byron Lines to Mr. Hodgson 17 Now our boatmen quit their mooring, And all hands must ply the oar. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 256 Wrecked by the fall of their icy mooring. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 451/1 To one end of the line a chain-shot was attached by way of mooring. 1894 Outing 23 401/1 Mainsail, foresail and gaff-topsail were hoisted, and her jib ready to hoist as soon as the mooring was dropped. 1934 J. A. Sinclair Airships in Peace & War ix. 186 A three-wire mooring was prepared at Pulham. 1992 L. Gordon Shared Lives vii. 147 The yacht got free of its mooring and drifted towards the heaving sea beyond the harbour. c. In extended use (in singular and plural). ΚΠ 1801 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1939) I. 456 Without..cash we cannot hold to our moorings. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. 160 Having broken from all moral moorings, he will find himself adrift. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1858) II. xiv. 184 The tumultuous passions..subsided... The tempest which had driven him from his domestic mooring was followed by a fitful calm. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 507 When..the pylorus is dragged from its moorings. 1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds vii. 158 So powerful was her voice that a picture of the late Lord Cabstanleigh..slipped from its moorings. 1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 67 (stage direct.) His hiccups stop, his eyes widen in panic. His bosoms have torn loose from their moorings again. 1988 Ice Hockey News Rev. 19 Nov. 20/1 Watson tipped the puck over the goal line but it was ruled out due to the cage being off its moorings. 3. A place in or along a river, canal, or harbour where a vessel may be moored. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > place for moorage1641 mooring1649 1649 Modest Narr. Intelligence No. 16. 125 I..am haling her off to her mooring: I have some defect about my rudder, and the sige of my ship. 1687 in W. D. Macray Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ (1842) v. i. 182 A difference between the officers of the navy and sir Phineas Pett, concerning the present state of the moorings of the King's ships at Chatham. 1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 65 Nearly the same time will be elapsed before the..ship..can be secured at her moorings. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 300 Some of the new men of war, indeed, were so rotten that, unless speedily repaired, they would go down at their moorings. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Landlord's Tale iii, in Tales Wayside Inn 19 Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim i. 6 The old training-ship chained to her moorings quivered all over, bowing gently head to wind. 1992 Times 31 Oct. 19/7 An avid sailor, he had a 43 ft yacht built in Taiwan and shipped to a mooring in the south of France. Compounds C1. mooring boat n. ΚΠ 1957 D. G. O. Baillie Sea Affair xii. 227 The Arab mooring-boat crews were ready at the buoys to cast off our lines. 1967 S. Waters Indentures Indorsed xxvi. 153 The two ships were almost alongside each other with only a small mooring boat containing five men between them. mooring bridle n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 484 Mooring-bridle, the fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port. 1919 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (Royal Aeronaut. Soc.) 58 Mooring bridle, a rigging passing between two points from a fitting in the length of which the mooring rope is attached. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 474/2 Mooring bridle, the chains or fasts attached to permanent moorings and taken into the hawse holes. mooring buoy n. ΚΠ 1809 Naval Chron. 24 23 She ran against one of the mooring buoys. 1979 North Sea Progress (Shell Internat. Petroleum Company) 6 The field will be served by tankers at single-point mooring buoys to take the oil production. mooring-cable n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel fast1440 mooring chain1485 guess-warp1495 mooring1681 gift-rope1704 moorings1750 mooring-cablea1785 steady-fast1867 a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) II. 107 Each mast was pliant to the raging gust, The mooring cable groan'd. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/1 A large buoy is attached to the end of a mooring cable. 1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy iii. 270/1 A mine mooring-cable fouled one of the forward hydroplanes. mooring chain n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel fast1440 mooring chain1485 guess-warp1495 mooring1681 gift-rope1704 moorings1750 mooring-cablea1785 steady-fast1867 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 38 Chenes for the Loves..j, Moryng chenes..ij. 1794 Rigging & Sea. I. 164 Chain-boat, a large boat fitted with a davit over its stem, and two windlasses, one forward, and the other aft, in the inside. It is used for getting up mooring-chains, anchors, etc. 1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 221 (advt.) Mooring chains, shackles and fittings;..anchors. mooring-ground n. ΚΠ 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §282 Owing to..the still inherent property of our vessel as a slow sailer, it was not till eight the next morning that we came to..our mooring ground. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 576 Can you not see..that where one drags the anchor so easily, the mooring-ground was never good? 1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 123 There were twenty and more of Breton sail Fast anchored on one mooring-ground. mooring hook n. ΚΠ 1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster viii. 97 I..cast the painter around the mooring-hook. 1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 46/3 Loads, measured by a strain gauge in the centre of each mooring hook, are displayed..on a monitor in the harbour office. † mooring-port n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Bridles..whose upper ends are drawn into the ship, at the mooring-ports. mooring rope n. ΚΠ 1420–1 in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 68 Moryngropes. 1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil xxii. 122 Five minutes more saw them embarked in the sloop under a fitting guard, the mooring ropes cut, and the vessel drifting with sail and oar toward the other bank. 1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 41/3 You need to be there at the top of a neap tide to avoid constantly having to adjust your mooring ropes. mooring stone n. ΚΠ 1805 Ann. Reg. 1803 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 468/2 The mooring-stones remained perfectly steady as did all the ships that were properly moored. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles lxvi. 576 The mooring stone had its particular berth in the boat. C2. mooring anchor n. any of the fixed anchors placed at the bottom of a harbour, to which vessels are moored. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored moorings1600 pawl1717 mooring post1779 mooring1809 mooring block1809 mooring anchor1820 ryepeck1834 snub-post1875 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 257 For the purpose of placing a mooring anchor. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 8/1 Mooring anchors are not limited by considerations of weight, &c., as other anchors are... Mooring anchors may therefore be of stone..or of cast iron. mooring block n. a block of cast iron or concrete to which a vessel is moored. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored moorings1600 pawl1717 mooring post1779 mooring1809 mooring block1809 mooring anchor1820 ryepeck1834 snub-post1875 1809 in Trans. Soc. Arts (1811) 28 173 Many of the line-of-battle ships..are moored with Mr. Hemman's cast-iron mooring-blocks. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Mooring-block, a sort of cast iron anchor, about 150 cwt. used in some of his Majesty's ports, for riding ships by. 1962 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 7 264 The gage may be mounted in a boat and heavy walled ¹/ ₈-in. I.D. rubber pressure tubing may be led down the mooring rope to connect it with an orific [sic] in the mooring block. mooring mast n. a strong upright structure to which an airship is moored. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > mooring mast for airship mooring mast1919 airmast1927 1919 Aeronaut. Techn. Rep. 1912–3 25 The mooring mast facilitates the employment of the airship in much rougher weather. 1929 Times 2 Nov. 9/4 R 101..was walked over to the mast at dawn..in 20 minutes, was at once coupled up to the mooring-mast cable and then waited patiently..for the actual mooring. 1972 Daily Tel. 26 June 5/1 Europa was in the air for the first time since its mooring mast snapped and the airship careered for threequarters of a mile. mooring point n. (a) a point on a vessel or airship to which mooring ropes or cables are attached; (b) a designated place for mooring a vessel. ΚΠ 1919 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (Royal Aeronaut. Soc.) 59 Mooring point, a specially strengthened point in the ship's structure from which the mooring attachments are led. 1929 E. F. Spanner About Airships iii. ii. 176 The casting in the hull right forward (where the mooring-point is attached) pulled out. 1989 I. Bunyan R34 15 Things became critical when the main mooring point in the bows gave way and it looked as if the ship might be blown away as her nose jerked up. 2000 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Electronic ed.) 21 July We want to make a separate mooring point. It will float some distance from the shore, and the clients will be delivered by boat. mooring post n. (a) a strong upright post fixed in the ground for mooring a vessel; (b) a piece of wood fixed in the deck of a vessel to which mooring ropes are attached. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action of mooring > object to which ship is moored moorings1600 pawl1717 mooring post1779 mooring1809 mooring block1809 mooring anchor1820 ryepeck1834 snub-post1875 1779 J. Smeaton Report (1812) II. 144 I would advise..that a very strong mooring-post be fixed upon the land. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 484 Mooring posts,..strong pieces of oak inserted into the deck of a large ship for fastening the moorings to when alongside a quay. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2231/2 Snub-post, a form of bitt or mooring-post on a raft or canal-boat. 1991 Times 19 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 32/1 The dried salted cod they tenderise in the lagoon by bashing it against the stone mooring posts before treating it with light olive oil. mooring swivel n. a swivel used to shackle two mooring chains together to prevent them becoming twisted. ΚΠ 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 323 A mooring swivel is an especially useful article. 1981 B. Webb Schult's Sailing Dict. 180/2 Mooring swivels are essential, especially if there is more than one anchor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mooringn.² Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: moor n.¹, -ing suffix¹; moor-ill n. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < moor n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, or perhaps by phonetic confusion with moor-ill n. Compare moor v.² English regional (northern). Obsolete. = redwater n. 1a. Cf. moor-ill n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > intestinal or urinary disorders vermination1656 maw-bounda1722 mooring1737 string1776 gut-tie1794 string1798 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxix. 257 Cattle which piss Blood, or have the Mooring, as they call it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.¹1378n.²1737
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