mooring

In this storm, the ship is about to break loose from her moorings and be set adrift.

The ship sheered off from her moorings.

Part of the dredging work for a typhoon shelter designed to provide moorings for not less than 30 vessels.

an anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls.

Chief Engineer: Make sure all moorings remain taut to restrict the movement of the ship.

But by whatever mechanism, the giant Greenland ice sheet was accelerating across its rocky moorings and toward the sea.

But, nevertheless, there comes a moment, with the sexual initiation of the mechanism, when the moorings are broken.

If moorings are wires, are they fitted with synthetic tails at least 11 metres in length?

Investors everywhere would be left without their moorings.

a section of the earth ' s crust hundreds of kilometers long tore off its moorings , slamming into the seawater above.

The boat broke its moorings in the storm.

lost their emotional moorings during the war.

The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed.

He lowered his sails as he came near his moorings.

There are few big coastal resorts except in the north-west , only a handful of marinas and scarcely any "mega-homes " with moorings .

Whereas Gaza was once plugged into Western economies, the siege has forced it to find other financial moorings.

"A trim little sailboat was dancing out at her moorings" (Herman Melville).

The ship had slipped its moorings in the night.

A typhoon shelter designed to provide moorings for not less than 30 vessels.

It will recede from moorings, stranding boats in the mud, or reveal sandbars where none are on the maps.

Sailboats broke free of their moorings and slammed against docks, bridges and other boats.

the other Japanese and cut loose from its folk and ritual moorings and more and more surviving as a tourist performance.

Capitalism has slipped its moral moorings.

The whole damn industry lost its moral moorings.

Around 250, 000 cod flit around five floating inner-tubes held to the ocean floor by cement moorings.

Half of Goolwa's boat moorings are now on dry land.

Several ships broke away from their moorings in the storm .

In these ways we can begin to reattach capitalism to its moral moorings.

So why are the Chinese still at their moorings?

the boat was torn from its moorings during the storm

Transport and modification processes of dense shelf water revealed by long-term moorings off Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk

Maritime structures - Design of inshore moorings and floating structures

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the moorings also handle most of hong kong s break bulk cargo