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Synaptase :: Synapta (n.) A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix..

Catfall :: Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..

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..

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..

Berth :: Berth (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide..

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

Cat :: Cat (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor..

Anchor :: Anchor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream..

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..

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) An emblem of hope.

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

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

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor..

Anchoretish :: Anchoretish (a.) Hermitlike.

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..

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

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

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