资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mooring \Moor"ing\, n.
   1. The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by
      means of anchors or fastenings.

   2. That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as
      anchors, cables, bridles, etc.

   3. pl. The place or condition of a ship thus confined.

            And the tossed bark in moorings swings. --Moore.

   {Mooring block} (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes
      used as an anchor for mooring vessels.