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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..

Fish :: Fish (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..

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

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

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

Anchored :: Anchored (imp. & p. p.) of Ancho.

Disanchor :: Disanchor (v. t. & i.) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor..

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..

Sea Anchor :: Sea anchor () See Drag sail, under 4th Drag..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bower :: Bower (v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

Weigh :: Weigh (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor..

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