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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.

The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.

To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

The straight part or shank of an anchor.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

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…

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.

The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the ele…

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

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

A fluke of an anchor.

One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

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