mooring buoys

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• Mooring (watercraft) — A dockworker places a mooring line on a bollard. A vessel is said to be moored when it is fastened to a fixed object such as a bollard, pier, quay or the seabed, or to a floating object such as an anchor buoy. Mooring is often accomplished using… …   Wikipedia

• mooring screw — Naut. a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft bottomed lakes, rivers, etc. Also called screw anchor, screw mooring. * * * …   Universalium

• mooring screw — Naut. a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft bottomed lakes, rivers, etc. Also called screw anchor, screw mooring …   Useful english dictionary

• buoy — /booh ee, boy/, n. 1. Naut. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore. 2. a life buoy. v.t …   Universalium

• Buoy — A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes, which determine whether the buoy is anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is nowadays most commonly pronEng|ˈbɔɪ (identical… …   Wikipedia

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• ground cable — noun a mooring cable; runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor • Hypernyms: ↑cable * * * noun : a mooring cable or chain that runs from a mooring anchor to a buoy * * * Naut. a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of… …   Useful english dictionary

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