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Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

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

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

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..

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

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..

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

Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room..

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

Drag :: Drag (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold..

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..

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

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Tore :: Tore (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.

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

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.

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

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

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