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Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners..

Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Moored :: Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..

Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

Moor :: Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..

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