anchored Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fix firmly and stably
    anchor; ground.
    • anchor the lamppost in concrete
  2. verb secure a vessel with an anchor
    cast anchor; anchor; drop anchor.
    • We anchored at Baltimore

WordNet

An"chored adjective
Definitions
  1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
  2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. Sometimes spelt ancred.

Webster 1913