Sheet anchor: alternatives and connections

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.

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp,…

A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…

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

The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

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

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…

the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"

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

That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the…

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…

A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.

Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the…