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Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam..

Berth :: Berth (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide..

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Unanchor :: Unanchor (v. t.) To loose from the anchor, as a ship..

Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

Anchoring :: Anchoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ancho.

Sheet Cable :: Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

Sea Anchor :: Sea anchor () See Drag sail, under 4th Drag..

Catfall :: Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

Viol :: Viol (n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) An anchoret.

Cyclide :: Cyclide (n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides..

Pee :: Pee (n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c)..

Apeak :: Apeak (adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak..

Stylo- :: Stylite (n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint..

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Abode of an anchoret.

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor..

Bite :: Bite (v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground..

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