Mooring
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mooring-237-14293994
title:
Mooring
text:
A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore. As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring. The term likely stems from the Dutch verb meren, u
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description:
Structure for securing floating vessels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooring
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date modified:
2024-04-05T11:49:43Z
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