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Definition of anchor

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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..

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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..

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..

Anchored :: Anchored (imp. & p. p.) of Ancho.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Cat :: Cat (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

Cable :: Cable (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links..

Overrake :: Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea..

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..

Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

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

Viol :: Viol (n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing 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.

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

Laura :: Laura (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

Shank :: Shank (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms..