moorings

Authorities said the port and a fish processing facility had been flooded, and vessels had been swept from their moorings.

In a way the rising take-up for these memberships reflects India's broader post-liberalisation growth story – when the country opened up to the world and discarded its socialist moorings.

Yacht moorings: During renovations, he spent time on one of his yachts anchored in the Potomac River and another penthouse apartment.

Half a century ago, few of these frozen moorings, or "pinning points", showed much change.

More than a third of these frozen moorings, known as pinning points, have decreased in size since the turn of the century, experts say.