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Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship.

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

Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..

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..

Sheet Cable :: Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

Awash :: Awash (a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it..

Berth :: Berth (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf..

Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Peak :: Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

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

Overrake :: Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Flook :: Flook (n.) A fluke of an anchor.

Signal :: Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor..

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