Significados de cut the mooring en inglés

One quick slash cut the mooring-rope, and the boat slowly drifted seaward with its slumbering occupant.

Armed with sharp axes two men prepared to cut the mooring lines on a sign from the Rough Red.

While the land forces attacked the shoreline, their sailors cast burning pitch on every vessel they could reach and cut the mooring lines.

Tony's plan was this: After Corrigan should be asleep he (Tony) and Burney would cut the mooring ropes that held the boat to the shore.

"I propose, Egbert," Edmund said, "that as we go along we cut the mooring-ropes of all the vessels.