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Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

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

Road :: Road (n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads..

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

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

Sheet Cable :: Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

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..

Gimlet :: Gimlet (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet..

Anchoretish :: Anchoretish (a.) Hermitlike.

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

Tail :: Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

Anchoritess :: Anchoritess (n.) An anchoress.

Roadstead :: Roadstead (n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4..

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

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

Berth :: Berth (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf..

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

Pee :: Pee (n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c)..

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

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