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

Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

Signal :: Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to 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.

Anchorite :: Anchorite (n.) Same as Anchoret.

Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.

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.

Crib :: Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc..

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

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

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

Bend :: Bend (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post..

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

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

Crown :: Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

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

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..

Anchoress :: Anchoress (n.) A female anchoret.

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..

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

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