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anchored
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Word definitions for anchored in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anchored \An"chored\, a. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context heraldry English) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor. v (en-past of: anchor )
Usage examples of anchored.
Almost immediately they crept out from behind the island they could see the lights on the mainland, two or three pinpricks from the watch fires on the walls of the fort, and lantern beams from the buildings outside the walls, spread out along the se afront The three vessels he had spotted from the saddle of the mountains were still anchored in the roads.
When they anchored in the deepest part of the channel, Hal dropped a hand line over the side, the hooks baited with crabs they had taken from their holes on the sandy beach.
Just before sunset Hal called a halt, and they rowed back towards the anchored galleon.
He had not bathed in over two months, since last they had anchored in the lagoon, and he longed for the feel of cool clear water on his skin.
He guessed that since they had anchored in the lagoon his father had cast his own horoscope.
Great-grandfather himself who proposed to Drake the use of devil ships against the Spanish Armada as it lay anchored in Calais Roads, may it not?
There he paused with his sword held high, and stared back across the channel at the tiny squadron of devil ships, blooming with smoke and flame and bearing down steadily upon his anchored Gull.
When he looked back the way he had come he could see the Gull of Moray anchored not far off a tiny rind of beach that clung precariously to the foot of the soaring rocky cliffs where the mountains fell into the sea.
The previous night, from the deck of the anchored Gull, they had heard terrifying, blood-chilling roars, rising and falling, then ending in a diminishing series of grunts and groans that sounded like the chorus of all the devils of hell.
As they glided in towards the anchored vessel Cumbrae read her name from her transom, De Swael, the Swallow.
The following morning the Gull and the Swallow sailed in company back into Table Bay, and as soon as they had anchored under the guns of the fort the Colonel and Cumbrae went ashore.
I will need the services of that fine naval frigate anchored in the bay, and three companies of your musketeers with Colonel Schreuder here to command them.
When they had made their tallies other gangs of seamen rolled the great barrels down to the beach and loaded them into the largest pinnace to be taken out to the galleon, which lay anchored out in the channel, under her new mainmast and rigging.
Daniel took a turn of the rope end around his good shoulder and anchored it as the rest of the team reached out, seized the swinging block and hauled it onto the trestle.
When Matesi struggled to escape a shrewd crack over his scalp with a marlin spike quieted him and, with his mates, he was shoved into the longboat and rowed out to where the Gull lay anchored at the edge of the shoals.