Large pieces of hard wood with a hole in the centre, shod with iron collars, and fastened between two stanchions in large ships, for the moorings to pass through.
·noun The place or condition of a ship thus confined. II. Mooring ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Moor>>. III...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pieces indented into a wooden anchor-stock where it has become worn or defective in the way of the s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Clamps of wood upon which a boat rests when stowed on a vessel's deck. ...
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port. ...
Strong upright posts fixed into the ground, for securing vessels to the landing-place by hawsers or ...
Iron swivel rings fixed on piers or buoys, &c., for securing vessels to. ...
See chock. ...
Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of small craft, to support the ends of the windl...