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Definition of anchor
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Anchor
(n.) An
emblem
of hope.
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Station
::
Station
(n.) A place to which ships may
resort,
and where they may
anchor
safely..
Fish
::
Fish (n.) A
purchase
used to fish the
anchor.
Road
::
Road (n.) A place where ships may ride at
anchor
at some
distance
from the
shore;
a
roadstead;
-- often in the
plural;
as,
Hampton
Roads..
Spare
::
Spare (v. t.) Held in
reserve,
to be used in an
emergency;
as, a spare
anchor;
a spare bed or
room..
Pee
::
Pee (n.) Bill of an
anchor.
See Peak, 3 (c)..
Anchored
::
Anchored
(imp. & p. p.) of
Ancho.
Anchor
::
Anchor
(v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.
Warp
::
Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a
vessel,
with a line, or warp,
attached
to a buoy,
anchor,
or other fixed
object..
Anchor-hold
::
Anchor-hold
(n.)
Hence:
Firm hold:
security.
Anchor
::
Anchor
(n.) A metal tie
holding
adjoining
parts of a
building
together.
Torpedo
::
Torpedo
(n.) A
quantity
of
explosives
anchored
in a
channel,
beneath
the
water,
or set
adrift
in a
current,
and so
arranged
that they will be
exploded
when
touched
by a
vessel,
or when an
electric
circuit
is
closed
by an
operator
on
shore..
Swing
::
Swing (n.) To turn round by
action
of wind or tide when at
anchor;
as, a ship
swings
with the
tide..
Laura
::
Laura (n.) A
number
of
hermitages
or cells in the same
neighborhood
occupied
by
anchorites
who were under the same
superior.
Beam
::
Beam (n.) The
straight
part or shank of an
anchor.
Anchoretical
::
Anchoretical
(a.)
Pertaining
to an
anchoret
or
hermit;
after the
manner
of an
anchoret.
Hawse
::
Hawse (n.) The
situation
of the
cables
when a
vessel
is
moored
with two
anchors,
one on the
starboard,
the other on the port bow..
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..
Sheet Anchor
::
Sheet
anchor
(v. t.) A large
anchor
stowed
on
shores
outside
the waist of a
vessel;
--
called
also waist
anchor.
See the Note under
Anchor.
Tide-rode
::
Tide-rode
(a.) Swung by the tide when at
anchor;
--
opposed
to
wind-rode.
Roadster
::
Roadster
(n.) A
clumsy
vessel
that works its way from one
anchorage
to
another
by means of the
tides.
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