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mooring line

NOUN
  1. (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place

How To Use mooring line In A Sentence

  • He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
  • The motion put such a great strain on New York "s mooring lines that they snapped with loud reports. Titanic - Destination disaster
  • The ensuing tidal wave had snapped mooring lines, and even boats that had held their moorings were wrecked.
  • Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
  • I turned my back on her, pulled in my mooring line, swung the bow round and blasted out to sea. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
  • It was nice to return to the creak of masts and mooring lines and the shadow of the piers. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
  • I clung to her hand, offering her a mooring line in that churning sea of grief.
  • Out in the pool the Maeve Corrigan had her flared bows into wind and was tugging impatiently at her mooring line like a thoroughbred. LET NOT THE DEEP
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