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

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) An anchoret.

Throat :: Throat (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

Solitary :: Solitary (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse..

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

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

Anchor-hold :: Anchor-hold (n.) Hence: Firm hold: security.

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

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..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

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

Anchoretism :: Anchoretism (n.) The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

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

Astay :: Astay (adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water..

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..

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

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

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament..

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

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