mooring

The act or an instance of making fast an aircraft or a vessel, as by a cable or anchor.

A place or structure to which a vessel or aircraft can be moored.

Equipment, such as anchors or chains, for holding fast a vessel or aircraft.

Beliefs or familiar ways of thinking that provide psychological stability or security.

Nautical:

The act of securing a ship or boat in a particular place by means of anchors, etc.

Mostly in the plural, that by which a ship is confined or secured, as the anchors, chains, and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbor: as, she lay at her moorings. Hence, generally

That to which anything is fastened, or by which it is held.

The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.

That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.