anchor : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel
  anchor chain.
  

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• . See under Ice.

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• noun a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor
  riding light; riding lamp.
  

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• noun a toroidal shape
  annulus; ring; doughnut; halo.
  
  • a ring of ships in the harbor
  • a halo of smoke

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• . (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b).

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• noun the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel
  anchor chain.
  

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• (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms.

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An"chor-hold` noun

Definitions

1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
2. Hence: Firm hold: security.

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• anchored.

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• verb secure a vessel with an anchor
  cast anchor; anchor.
  
  • We anchored at Baltimore

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• . See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n.

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• verb secure a vessel with an anchor
  cast anchor; anchor.
  
  • We anchored at Baltimore

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• (Arch.), an egg-shaped ornament, alternating with another in the form of a dart, used to enrich the ovolo; called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue. See Anchor, n., 5. Ogilvie.

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• noun a decorative molding; a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape
  egg-and-dart; egg-and-tongue.
  

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• (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.

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• (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

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• the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled.

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• noun a light anchor for small boats
  grapnel.
  

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• (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane.

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• noun an anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place
  

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• noun an anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls
  

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• an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls.

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• noun restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
  drogue.
  

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Sea" an"chor

Definitions

1. (Naut.) See Drag sail, under 4th Drag.

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• noun spare anchor for use in emergency
  sheet anchor.
  

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Sheet" an"chor

Etymology

OE. scheten to shoot, AS. sceótan; cf. OE. shoot anchor. See Shoot, v. t.

Definitions

1. (Naut.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
2. Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.

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• . (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered. (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.

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• . (Naut.) See under Anchor, and Cable.

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• when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts.

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• when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go.

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• when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship directly over it.

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• when it is lifted out of the ground.

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• when it is hove up to the surface of the water.

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• (Naut.), to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one.
• to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home.

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• to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest.
• (Naut.) Se under Anchor.

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• to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper.

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• to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.

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• (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.

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• to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter.

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• (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

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• a figurative expression, signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures for success or security.

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• (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

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• to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

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• . (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

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• (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

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• noun spare anchor for use in emergency
  sheet anchor.
  

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• . See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary.

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• verb heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing
  weigh anchor.
  

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• verb heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing
  weigh anchor.
  

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