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

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

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

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor..

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

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Aldine :: Aldine (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works..

Signal :: Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

Roadster :: Roadster (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

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

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

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

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

Crab :: Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

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

Crib :: Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc..

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

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..

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..

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