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anchor chain

n. the chain that attaches an anchor to a vessel

Usage examples of "anchor chain".

Then he clambered awkwardly over the side and down the anchor chain.

Unconsciousness closed in on me again, the pain in my guts overwhelming, and when I came to it was in darkness with the hard feel of the anchor chain under me and the occasional slam of the bows reverberating through my head, a hanging length of chain sliding across my body.

I pulled the bags right for'ard, leaned out under the pulpit rail and used lengths of heaving line to secure them to the anchor chain.

Meanwhile, I will carry litde Tolo down one anchor chain while Mok brings Niki and Jan down die other.

No fancy tricks about securing them to the anchor chain this time: apart from the fact that it was, the way I felt, physically impossible, the time for that was past, I deflated the dinghy and stowed it, along with the outboard, in the after locker.

One morning they had found her, wrapped motionless around Paragon's anchor chain.

The only damage sustained in the opening stage of the battle came from a shell of Cumberland that shattered vrlrginia's anchor chain and drove it back through a gunport, killing one man and wounding several others.

Then he gave orders to slip the anchor chain and rang the engine room to back the ship.