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

Berth :: Berth (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide..

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..

Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.

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

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam..

Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

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

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..

Cat :: Cat (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

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

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..

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place..

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

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

Aweigh :: Aweigh (adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor..

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

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

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

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