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Tripping :: Tripping (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

Grapnel :: Grapnel (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel..

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

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

Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

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

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..

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

Throat :: Throat (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship.

Swing :: Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide..

Culdee :: Culdee (n.) One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales..

Anachoretical :: Anachoretical (a.) See Anchoret, Anchoretic..

Aweigh :: Aweigh (adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor..

Tide-rode :: Tide-rode (a.) Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

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

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

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