Grapnel: alternatives and connections

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

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.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink

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

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young w…

To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.

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…

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

A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals…

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

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

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes

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