mooring buoy
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mooring buoy
(′mu̇r·iŋ ′böi)
(engineering) A buoy secured to the bottom by permanent moorings and provided with means for mooring a vessel by use of its anchor chain or mooring lines; in its usual form a mooring buoy is equipped with a ring.
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