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Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge..

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

Killock :: Killock (n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together..

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

Bower :: Bower (v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

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..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..

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..

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..

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

Anchor :: Anchor (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship..

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

Anchorate :: Anchorate (a.) Anchor-shaped.

Caloyer :: Caloyer (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos..

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

Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

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

Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

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