moorings

If, however, our religion implicates itself in a political cause, it links its credibility to the most transient of moorings.

No surprise, then, that having slipped the moorings of a common reality it slipped the moorings of a common decency as well.

Sometimes it seemed as if she were tugging at her moorings, longing to be off on the long, long cruise.

Slowly the gallant ship come round the breakwater to her moorings.