mooring mast
- noun
- /ˈmʊrɪŋ mæst/
- Archaic
:
mastil de amarre
- The crew secured the airship to the mooring mast to keep it steady while it was not flying.
Examples
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She swung her ship up to the family mooring mast.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ground crew member R.W. Antrim, who was at the top of the mooring mast, also testified that he saw the covering behind the rear port engine fluttering.
Blog text (12) -
It will happen at the mooring mast.
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The smoke and the flames now, and the frame is crashing to the ground... not quite to the mooring mast.
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It'll happen at the mooring mast at Lakehurst.
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At the time of the murder, he was dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fay Wray on the dirigible mooring mast atop the Empire State Building.
Blog text (30) -
During the storm, the airship's mooring mast provided a safe place to anchor it and prevent damage.
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The mooring mast at the harbor was tall enough to accommodate even the largest airships.
Synonyms
A tall structure that holds an airship on the ground when it is not flying
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'mooring' (a place/structure for securing a craft) with 'mast' (an upright pole), so its meaning — a mast used for mooring — is directly inferable from the parts. Though the specific use for airships is a domain detail, the noun+noun composition is transparent and predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun mooring mast comes from a simple image: a tall mast where airships are tied, and mooring means 'to tie up'. Because airships could not land like planes, they were tied to the mast when they were 'not flying', so mooring mast now means the large post used to hold them in place.