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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Anchor :: Anchor (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.

Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

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

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.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament..

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

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor..

Astay :: Astay (adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water..

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

Tide-rode :: Tide-rode (a.) Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

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

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

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..

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