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Definition of anchor

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Anchor (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place..

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Crab :: Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship.

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

Fish :: Fish (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

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..

Aldine :: Aldine (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works..

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

Grouser :: Grouser (n.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

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

Anchor :: Anchor (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge..

Cenobite :: Cenobite (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude..