mooring line

1. 1.

   (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place

   Synonymsmooring

   Broaderline

   Narrowerheadfast

   boat

Questions about mooring line

What does mooring line mean?

mooring line means "(nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place".

What is another word for mooring line?

Close synonyms include mooring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mooring line a common word?

mooring line 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.