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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..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Bite :: Bite (v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground..

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

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

Kedge :: Kedge (v. t.) A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n..

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..

Anchoring :: Anchoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ancho.

Anchoretical :: Anchoretical (a.) Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

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

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.

Sheet Anchor :: Sheet anchor (v. t.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel..

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

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..

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

Anchor-hold :: Anchor-hold (n.) Hence: Firm hold: security.

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

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

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

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