Definition of moorings Moorings
/muˈɹɪŋz/ - [muringz] - moor•ings
We found 4 definitions of moorings from 3 different sources.
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What does moorings mean?
Wiktionary 
- moorings (Noun)
Plural of mooring. - moorings (Noun)
A place or places where a vessel may be made fast .
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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moorings
are usually an assemblage of anchors, chains, and bridles, laid athwart the bottom of a river, or haven, to ride the shipping contained therein.The anchors, employed on this occasion, have rarely more than one fluke, which is sunk in the river near low-water mark. Two anchors, being fixed in this manner, on the opposite sides of the river, are furnished with a chain, extending across from one to the other. In the middle of the chain is a large square link, whose lower end terminates in a swivel, which turns round in the chain as about an axis, whenever the ship veers about with the change of the tide. To this swivel-link are attached the bridles, which are short pieces of cable, well served, whose upper ends are drawn into the ship, at the mooring-ports, and afterwards fastened to the masts, or cable-bits.A great number of moorings, of this sort, are fixed in the royal ports, or the harbours adjacent to the king’s dock-yards, as Deptford, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c.
Part of speech
🔤- moorings, noun, plural of mooring.
