Mooring Tower (Noun)
Meaning
A tower for mooring airships.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The massive mooring tower stood tall at the airship port, ready to secure the arriving ship.
- Historians describe a grand mooring tower that once supported the British R100 airship in the 1920s.
- A unique feature of the airship dock was its adjustable mooring tower that adapted to different airship sizes.
- At the top of the mooring tower, powerful cables were reeled out to capture the approaching airship.
- The steel structure of the old mooring tower now stood abandoned, a testament to a forgotten era of airship travel.