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Road :: Road (n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads..

Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives..

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..

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

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

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

Anachoretical :: Anachoretical (a.) See Anchoret, Anchoretic..

Palm :: Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel..

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

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..

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

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

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

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

Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

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..

Kedge :: Kedge (v. t.) A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n..

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