Bitts: alternatives and connections

To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them…

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor…

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse,…

A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…

The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; a…

Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.