mooring anchor

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   an anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place

   Broaderanchor

Questions about mooring anchor

What does mooring anchor mean?

mooring anchor means "an anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place".

Is mooring anchor a common word?

mooring anchor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.