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Moorage

noun
1.
A fee for mooring.
2.
A place where a craft can be made fast.  Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip.
3.
The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes.  Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up.






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"Moorage" Quotes from Famous Books



... first furled their sails, and stowed them in the sable bark; they next brought the mast to its receptacle, lowering it quickly by its stays, and they rowed the vessel forwards with oars into its moorage; they heaved out the sleepers, and tied the hawsers. They themselves then went forth on the breakers of the sea, and disembarked the hecatomb to far-darting Apollo, and then they made the daughter of Chryses descend from the sea-traversing bark. Then wise Ulysses, leading ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer

... our old moorage at Konewitz, and on Saturday, at the appointed hour, landed in St. Petersburg. We carried the white cross at the fore as we descended the Neva, and the bells of the churches along the banks welcomed our return. And now, as I ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... comparative quiet, for old Jolyon's way to a second Board led him in the direction of Moorage Street. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



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