Definitions for moorings

moorings moor·ing

Spelling: [moo r-ing]
IPA: /ˈmʊər ɪŋ/

Moorings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in moorings (gimnoors).

Definitions for moorings

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that moors.
  2. Usually, moorings. the means by which a ship, boat, or aircraft is moored.
  3. moorings, a place where a ship, boat, or aircraft may be moored.
  4. Usually, moorings. one's stability or security:

Origin of moorings

1375-1425; late Middle English; compare Middle Dutch moor; see moor2, -ing1

Examples for moorings

If, however, our religion implicates itself in a political cause, it links its credibility to the most transient of moorings.

When the Bovista ripens it breaks from its moorings and is blown about by the wind.

Throw off your moorings, then, and clap on sail, for we must go.'

No surprise, then, that having slipped the moorings of a common reality it slipped the moorings of a common decency as well.

"There he is, on the quay, looking at the moorings," says one of the youngsters as he skipped past me.

Pancks opened the door for him, towed him in, and retired to his own moorings in a corner.

The ship had just loosed her moorings, and was gliding out to sea.

He looked for the lobster car, which should have been floating at its moorings, but could not see it.

Heave the hussy up to her anchor, Mr. Leach, when we will cast an eye to her moorings.

I told the dockman at our moorings to keep all fast for a minute.

Word Value for moorings
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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