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Haven :: Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port..

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

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

Wind-rode :: Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other..

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Abode of an anchoret.

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

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor..

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..

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..

Anchoretical :: Anchoretical (a.) Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

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

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..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

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

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

Anchoretish :: Anchoretish (a.) Hermitlike.

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor..

Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..

Anchor :: Anchor (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship..

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor..

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