To guard against a repetition of such an attack, a system of guard boats, some moored across the river and some patrolling, was established, entailing considerable extra work on the sailors.
In reply to a rumour that the men were afraid to sail in her, he points out that she is moored alongside a wharf, and the men could go ashore whenever they pleased, yet he had not lost a single man.
When on his way to the ship the next morning for the chronometer, King was informed that the Discovery's cutter had been stolen; it had been moored to the anchor buoy.
On 14th July, whilst "moored in a bay by Great Garnish, we picked up two men who had been lost in the woods for near a month.
This attack was to be supported by the Centurion, moored in the north channel, and by two armed cats which were to be run aground as near as possible to some small redoubts, the first object of the attack.
They had been moored alongside one another to the wharf, but, rocking in the swell, had chafed through their moorings and broken adrift.
Carrie had seized her oar again, and was bringing the boat's head rapidly round, right under the stern of a barge which was moored close to Plumtree Wharf.
The coast was very indented and broken, and in two hours they passed the mouth of a deep bay into which the boat was at once directed, and was presently moored under the shelter of its northern bank.
Here they landed, moored the large canoe to the shore and carried the other up the bank.
So the Tramp headed in, to find that there was indeed a creek back of the jutting point, and that the Wireless was snugly moored to the shore there.
He remained as motionless as a stone when he saw moving objects creep into the little opening alongside the cove in which the motor boat lay moored to a couple of trees.
This officer positively denied the circumstance of any of their gun-boats being moored with chains during our last attack.
At the pier at Henley a man met us with a little boat and rowed us up the river, past dozens of house-boats moored along the bank.
Another house-boat, three boats from ours, was owned by a wealthy brewer and had a pavilion built on the land back of where it was moored and connected by a broad gangplank with the boat.
Meanwhile he had again gone off Boulogne, and directed an attack in boats upon the line of vessels moored outside.
They came to anchor, moored ship, and commenced discharging hides and tallow.
They moored ship, erected their try-works on shore, put up a small tent, in which they all lived, and commenced operations.
Moored in every available inch of space are the house-boats in which thousands of the inhabitants spend the whole of their lives.
On the first evening of the Katin ceremony the boats were arranged in front of the palace landing, as usual, and the state barge with the glass throne was moored there, pending the arrival of the king.
The rafts are loosely moored to several stakes driven deep in the bed of the river, and rise and fall with the tide.
Two boats were lying moored to the wharves at the side of the canal.
The window looked out upon the quay, and Rollo could see the men at work getting out hogsheads and bales of goods from a steamer that was moored there.
He moored the punt to the rusty iron ring attached to the steps.
An old punt lay moored at the foot of some moss-covered steps leading to the lake.
The tide was high and the dull swish of the water, as it swung past the moored barges, soothed his troubled mind for a while, and he became engrossed in the strangeness of his weird surroundings.
The town and the actual ships were shrouded in darkness, but every night numbers of small boats, each showing a white light, were moored at some distance from the fleet.
At noon the "Heracles" entered the harbour and moored in mid-stream.
A vessel mooredoff rocks or sand-banks, hoisting lights at night.
There Her Majesty's ships and vessels of war are generallymoored during peace, and such as want repairing are taken into the docks, examined, and refitted for service.
A pole, generally pointed with iron, forced into the mud, by which boats and barges are moored in shallow water.
When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside the stem by the swinging of the ship when moored in a tide-way.
When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby causing the cables to take half a round turn on each other.
A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further service.
Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two cables lie across each other.
A landing-place or indent into the shore for a boat to be moored in; a term of the Orkney Isles.
Two ladders of rope, suspended from the right and left side of a ship's stern, whereby to get into the boats which are moored astern.
Where there is no mole or jetty the hull of an old ship may be sunk at the entrance of a small harbour, to break off or diminish the force of the waves as they advance towards the vessels moored within.
To secure a ship with anchors, or to confine her in a particular station by two chains or cables, either fastened to the mooring chains or to the bottom; a ship is moored when she rides by two anchors.
It is also generally understood to imply the situation of the cables before the ship's stem, when she is moored with two anchors out from forward, one on the starboard, and the other on the port bow.
The situation of a ship which is moored so taut by her cables, extending from the hawse to two distant anchors, as to be prevented from swinging to the wind or tide.
Bar, a boom formed of huge trees, or spars lashed together, moored transversely across a port, to prevent entrance or egress.
The movement by which a ship turns or swings round when at single anchor, or moored by the head, at every change of tide or wind.
A ship with one anchor down and a shore-fast is moored a proviso.
The gay crowd in the paddock at Ditton Corner, the lines of carriages on one side, and the flotilla of moored boats under the bank, appealed to him with all the force of a delightful novelty.
A considerable number of boats were moored on the two banks below the bridge, and were receiving or discharging packages covered with wrappers made of rushes.
At your feet the town with its ramparts looks like a vessel moored at the extremity of a promontory.
Ships were getting larger in size, and masts were needed where they could be moored outdoors, or taken in and out of the hangar.
Los Angeles successfully demonstrated when mooredto the U.
He mooredtwo barges in the narrowest part of the stream, where the current was the strongest, put his mill-stones on board of them, and hung a water-wheel between them to turn his mills.
It has already been stated that the vessels composing the captured fleet had been moored on either side of the Causeway, and consequently they were placed between the Island and the shore.
The now Grecian Galleys (captured from the Tyrians) were brought and moored along the sides of the Mole, having their lines trebled near, and especially at the Island-base of the causeway.
It was moored fast with a rope of Samarak, and two broad paddles lay inside it.
They lay merrily bobbing in a long stringmoored to an Ollaconda on the swift-running water.
We then accompanied the police through the mangroves, to the creek where they had moored their boat, and started for home.
We were rapidly rowed by two of the crew to the schooner, which wasmoored to the buoy off the Pilot Jetty, anxiously waiting to slip her cable.
Then he came upon a structure which must have been the fur rack Sam Two had alluded to, for here was their other boat moored to a convenient willow.
And the post where Sam's boat was usually moored was bare of rope; the boat was gone.
It was moored by two thick ropes to a sunken post, and already the mooring was dragging the bow down.
In the place so late the scene of combat, lay moored the hulk of the Grecian Admiral, burnt to the water's edge, and still sending forth a black smoke from its scathed beams and planks.
All the boatmen stopped there, and sometimes as many as one hundred and fifty craft were mooredto the bank at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
