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Bend :: Bend (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post..

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..

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

Anchoret :: Anchoret (n.) Alt. of Anchorit.

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

Moor :: Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf..

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..

Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..

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

Roadstead :: Roadstead (n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4..

Arm :: Arm (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station..

Awash :: Awash (a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it..

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

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

Tail :: Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream..

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

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

Solitary :: Solitary (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse..

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..

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