Unmoor: 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.

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

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 float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, a…

To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

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

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

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

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

Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an act…

Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or ti…

The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.

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

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