(figuratively) Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
“The harbor was bustling with activity as the cargo ships lined up at the mooring, eagerly awaiting their turn to load and unload their valuable goods.”
“For ordinary boaters who just enjoyed a quiet cruise, moorage space at other marinas and clubs was not available for some years into the future, including dry berthing.”
“Not helping matters, it was tequila night at that evening's moorage in Moore Bay.”
“In this project, a 600-square metre area around the wharf and within the boat basin will be dredged to provide safe access and moorage.”
moor
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
“At all times the buzzard is inquisitive, for when lying motionless in heather on the open moor, individual birds have approached the writer within a few yards, doubtless taking him for carrion.”
“Because there was no route directly across the swampy moor, people had been moving from village to village around it in a circular pattern for centuries.”