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City at the head of Cook Inlet
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anchorage
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Word definitions for anchorage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "toll or charge for anchoring" (see anchor (v.) + -age . Meaning "act of dropping anchor, being at anchor" is from 1610s; that of "place suitable for anchoring" is from 1706. The Alaska city of Anchorage was founded 1914.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fee for anchoring a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska" place for vessels to anchor [syn: anchorage ground ] the act of anchoring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anchorage \An"chor*age\, n. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An anchorage is a location at sea where ships can lower anchors . Anchorages are where anchors are lowered and utilised, whereas moorings usually are tethering to buoys or something similar. The locations usually have conditions for safe anchorage in protection ...
Usage examples of anchorage.
You can blame yourself if the stuff gets delivered in Anchorage unaltered.
Petersburg, flown north to Anchorage, and returned in time to meet my ship with his rather distinctive old vehicle, the question was why.
Only one act of my super-spy drama remained to be played-Nystrom in the Northwest, or the Courageous Courier-well, two, if you counted the delivery in Anchorage, assuming that Holz let me get that far.
Your presence indicates that the scheduled drop in Anchorage has probably been compromised.
Dad only visited, or you visited him in Anchorage, you never lived together.
Bobby was the NOAA observer for the Park, or at least making daily reports to the National Weather Service in Anchorage was his excuse to the IRS every time he bought a new receiver.
August, after that idiot from Anchorage tried to taxi through the wall.
Bering fell heir to newspapers carried by passengers on their way from Anchorage into the Y-K delta.
I could have stood it in Anchorage, so long as I got to visit you once in a while.
She might have to fly into Anchorage which, as the killer was most likely still in the Park, might not be a bad idea.
They were sending Brian Loy from Anchorage to talk to local businesses about the new services offered on USPS-dot-com.
Emaa had tried to force her into living in Niniltna, the womb to which she had fled from the stifling, swarming confines of college, the place waiting for her on long weekends and vacations between time on the job in Anchorage, the one place in the world able to heal the wounds inflicted by five and a half years of casework featuring raped and beaten women and abused children, her home, her center, her sanctuary, her refuge.
When I was living with Dad on Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage they used to come sliding in on the lagoon before the ice melted.
There was no rule of which Dandy was aware that just because Kate had once investigated sex crimes for the district attorney in Anchorage that she automatically got whatever extra job came with the new trooper post in Niniltna.
George standing by ready to fly his ass to Anchorage and dump it on the first plane south.