Mooring

A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water.

An 'anchor mooring' fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore.
As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring.

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