In maritime law. Anchor-ing or making fast to the shore or dock; the securing or confining a vessel in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by a line or chaln run to the wharf. A vessel is “moored in safety,” wlthln the meaning of a policy of marine insurance, when she is thus moored to a wharf or dock, free from any immediate danger from any of the perils Insured against. See 1 Phil. Ins. 968; walsh v. New York Floating Dry Dock Co., 8 Daly (N. Y.) 387; Flandreau v. Elsworth, 9 Misc. Rep. 340, 29 N. Y. Supp. 694; Bramhall v. Sun Mut Ins. Co., 104 Mass. 516* 6 Am. Rep. 261
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
