mooring tower
- noun
- /ˈmʊrɪŋ ˈtaʊər/
- Archaic
:
torre de amarre
- Engineers designed a new mooring tower to better accommodate the larger airships.
Examples
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The airship was secured to the ground using the mooring tower after its flight.
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Stacks of hangars and a tall line of downwind mooring towers marked Myrine Harbor.
Fiction book (1998) -
As the weather improved, the airship floated down gently onto the mooring tower.
Synonyms
A tall pole for tying an airship when it is not flying
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'mooring' (a place or device for securing a craft) combined with 'tower' (a tall structure) yields a tall structure used for mooring. Although 'mooring' often evokes boats, the general idea of securing a vessel easily generalizes to airships, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Mooring tower comes from a simple picture: a huge airship tied like a boat to a tall mast. Mooring means 'to tie' and tower shows it is tall, so the phrase means a tall structure used to hold airships on the ground.