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Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..

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

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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.

Bite :: Bite (v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

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

Sea Anchor :: Sea anchor () See Drag sail, under 4th Drag..

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

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

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

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

Sheet Anchor :: Sheet anchor (v. t.) Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.

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

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse..

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

Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..

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

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

Anchoretic :: Anchoretic (a.) Alt. of Anchoretica.

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