ˈmu̇riŋ, -rēŋ sometimes ˈmōr- or ˈmȯr- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English moring, from gerund of moren to moor — more at moor
1. : an act of making fast a boat or aircraft by means of chains, lines, anchors, or other devices
2.
a. : a place where or an object to which a craft can be made fast
the lake provides mooring for 166 planes — Elsie M. B. Grosvenor
yacht clubs … of the sort that maintains neither docks nor moorings — M.M.Hunt
b. : a chain, line, or other device by which an object (as a boat) is secured in place
one of the best tests of a seaman is to let him pick up a mooring under varying conditions of wind, sea and tide — W.P.Moore
3. : an established practice or stabilizing influence : anchorage 4 — usually used in plural
modern man has been torn from his spiritual moorings — F.L.Baumer
this shift from normal political moorings — Arthur Krock