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noun
(often moorings) a place where a boat or ship is moored:the boat had been at its usual moorings immediately prior to the storm the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored:the great ship slipped its moorings and slid out into the Atlantic figurativethe little ways in which those who grieve regain their moorings