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

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.

Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

Anchorable :: Anchorable (a.) Fit for anchorage.

Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

Anchor :: Anchor (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.

Beam :: Beam (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..

Anchoress :: Anchoress (n.) A female anchoret.

Astay :: Astay (adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water..

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..

Anchor :: Anchor (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge..

Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue..

Berth :: Berth (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf..

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin..

Prizing :: Prizing (n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5..

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