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- Anchor - n. - A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
- Anchor - n. - Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
- Anchor - n. - Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
- Anchor - n. - An emblem of hope.
- Anchor - n. - A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- Anchor - n. - Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- Anchor - n. - One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- Anchor - v. t. - To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
- Anchor - v. t. - To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
- Anchor - v. i. - To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
- Anchor - v. i. - To stop; to fix or rest.
- Anchor - n. - An anchoret.
- Anchor-hold - n. - The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
- Anchor-hold - n. - Hence: Firm hold: security.
- Anchorable - a. - Fit for anchorage.
- Anchorage - n. - Abode of an anchoret.
- Anchorage - n. - The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
- Anchorage - n. - A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
- Anchorage - n. - The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
- Anchorage - n. - Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Anchorage - n. - Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
- Anchorage - n. - A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
- Anchorate - a. - Anchor-shaped.
- Anchored - a. - Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
- Anchored - a. - Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.
- Echinus - n. - A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.
- Anchorless - a. - Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
- Bite - v. t. - To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
- Killock - n. - A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
- Aldine - a. - An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.
- Weather-bound - a. - Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
- Crossbar - n. - A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
- Disanchor - v. t. & i. - To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
- Dolphin - n. - A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
- Davit - n. - 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 of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
- Crown - n. - That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
- Tripping - n. - The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
- Anchor - n. - Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- Peak - n. - The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- Arm - n. - The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.
- Apeak - adv. & a. - 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 said to be hove apeak.
- Drag - v. i. - To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
- Road - n. - A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
- Palm - n. - The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
- Fish-tackle - n. - A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
- Kedge - v. t. - A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.
- Fluke - n. - The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
- Tore - n. - The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.
- Clubhaul - v. t. - To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
- Astay - adv. - An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
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- G45 ἄγκυρα - 45 ἄγκυρα - ἌΓΚΥΡΑ - - ánkyra - ang'-koo-rah - from the same as ἀγκάλη; an "anchor" (as crooked):--anchor. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G142 αἴρω - 142 αἴρω - ΑἼΡΩ - - aírō - ah'-ee-ro - a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare נָשָׂא) to expiate sin:--away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up). - Verb - greek
- G4014 περιαιρέω - 4014 περιαιρέω - ΠΕΡΙΑΙΡΈΩ - - periairéō - per-ee-ahee-reh'-o - from περί and αἱρέομαι (including its alternate); to remove all around, i.e. unveil, cast off (anchor); figuratively, to expiate:--take away (up). - Verb - greek
- G4358 προσορμίζω - 4358 προσορμίζω - ΠΡΟΣΟΡΜΊΖΩ - - prosormízō - pros-or-mid'-zo - from πρός and a derivative of the same as ὁρμή (meaning to tie (anchor) or lull); to moor to, i.e. (by implication) land at:--draw to the shore. - Verb - greek
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- Acts 44 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
ΚΑΊ ΠΕΡΙΑΙΡΈΩ ἌΓΚΥΡΑ ἘΆΩ ΕἸΣ ΘΆΛΑΣΣΑ ἍΜΑ ἈΝΊΗΜΙ ΠΗΔΆΛΙΟΝ ΖΕΥΚΤΗΡΊΑ ΚΑΊ ἘΠΑΊΡΩ ἈΡΤΈΜΩΝ ΠΝΈΩ ΚΑΤΈΧΩ ΕἸΣ ΑἸΓΙΑΛΌΣ - Hebrews 58 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
ὍΣ ἜΧΩ ὩΣ ἌΓΚΥΡΑ ΨΥΧΉ ΤΈ ἈΣΦΑΛΉΣ ΚΑΊ ΒΈΒΑΙΟΣ ΚΑΊ ΕἸΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ ΕἸΣ ἘΣΏΤΕΡΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΠΈΤΑΣΜΑ - Acts 44 27:30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
ΔΈ ΝΑΎΤΗΣ ΖΗΤΈΩ ΦΕΎΓΩ ἘΚ ΠΛΟῖΟΝ ΚΑΊ ΧΑΛΆΩ ΣΚΆΦΗ ΕἸΣ ΘΆΛΑΣΣΑ ΠΡΌΦΑΣΙΣ ὩΣ ΜΈΛΛΩ ἘΚΤΕΊΝΩ ἌΓΚΥΡΑ ἘΚ ΠΡῶΡΑ - Acts 44 27:29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
ΤΈ ΦΟΒΈΩ -ΠΏΣ ΜΉΠΩΣ ἘΚΠΊΠΤΩ ΕἸΣ ΤΡΑΧΎΣ ΤΌΠΟΣ ῬΊΠΤΩ ΤΈΣΣΑΡΕΣ ἌΓΚΥΡΑ ἘΚ ΠΡΎΜΝΑ ΕὔΧΟΜΑΙ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ ἩΜΈΡΑ