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Definition of Mooring anchor
1. Noun. An anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooring Anchor
Literary usage of Mooring anchor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"An anchor of the dimensions given weighs about 14 cwt, and will hold far more
than a cast-iron mooring anchor of 7 tons. The only objections to it seem to ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"... or their mooring-anchor weighed ; and in each case the buoy is carried out to
eea, when the buoy-tenders give chase, and, if successful in its capture, ..."
3. Military Bridges: Including, Also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for by Hermann Haupt (1864)
"The mooring-anchor is made entirely of iron, and weighs 45 Ibs. Its parts are
the shank, the flukes, and the stock. It differs in no respect from an ..."
4. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1911)
"MUSHROOM ANCHORS WE have your favor of recent date asking us if we ever made any
careful experiments on the holding power of the Bulb-Shank mooring anchor ..."
5. British Manufactures by George Dodd (1845)
"Another kind of anchor occasionally employed is that called the ' mooring anchor,'
used for securing vessels in certain situations in harbours or roadsteads ..."
6. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1820)
"John Grice, is an anchor maker, made mushroom anchors nine years since, saw the
wedge mooring-anchor at North-fleet ten or twelve years ago; ..."
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