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

Grapnel :: Grapnel (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel..

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

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

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..

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

Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue..

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

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

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Anchorable :: Anchorable (a.) Fit for anchorage.

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

Cat :: Cat (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor..

Swing :: Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor..

Cyclide :: Cyclide (n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides..

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

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

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object..

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..

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