Definition of "moorings" []

• Plural form of mooring. (noun)
• A place or places where a vessel may be made fast (noun)

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• "In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.”"
• "With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being."
• "After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn."