Crossword clues for at anchor
at anchor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anchor \An"chor\ ([a^][ng]"k[~e]r), n. [OE. anker, AS. ancor, oncer, L. ancora, sometimes spelt anchora, fr. Gr. 'a`gkyra, akin to E. angle: cf. F. ancre. See Angle, n.]
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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.
Note: The common anchor consists of a straight bar called a shank, having at one end a transverse bar called a stock, above which is a ring for the cable, and at the other end the crown, from which branch out two or more arms with flukes, forming with the shank a suitable angle to enter the ground.
Note: Formerly the largest and strongest anchor was the sheet anchor (hence, Fig., best hope or last refuge), called also waist anchor. Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike. Then came the best bower and the small bower (so called from being carried on the bows). The stream anchor is one fourth the weight of the bower anchor. Kedges or kedge anchors are light anchors used in warping.
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.
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Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
--Heb. vi. 19. (Her.) An emblem of hope.
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(Arch.)
A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
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.
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(Zo["o]l.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
6. (Television) an achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson.
Anchor ice. See under Ice.
Anchor light See the vocabulary.
Anchor ring. (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b).
Anchor shot See the vocabulary.
Anchor space See the vocabulary.
Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms.
Anchor watch See the vocabulary.
The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts.
Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled.
The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go.
The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in so tight as to bring to ship directly over it.
The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground.
The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water.
At anchor, anchored.
To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home.
To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest.
To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper.
To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter.
To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.
Usage examples of "at anchor".
Navy Auxiliary Vessel Atmore [YD-1823] to steam the previous evening across the very unpleasant Irish Sea from Liverpool to Little Ross Bay, where it now rode at anchor.
It loomed ahead of her, until it filled her entire vision, and she could not resist glancing back for one last look at Anchor Logh, its greenery barely discernible over the top of the wall.
This isn't any big Fluxlord, remember it's all Anchor now, and these boys are the world's greatest experts at Anchor fighting and they have the weapons that took three other Anchors and secured a cluster.
At exactly twelve-thirty on the master twenty-five-hour clock that had become standard on New Eden, the program activated in the Kagan 7800 beneath the administration building at Anchor X-ray.
As far as I could see the coast was covered with tents, and there was another steamer, and half a dozen big wooden transports, and one great warship, all riding at anchor between the pier and the river mouth.
Beyond was the oily lapping of the harbour water with a great ship riding at anchor, and Carter paused in stark terror when he saw that the ship was indeed one of the dreaded black galleys from the moon.
In Cunfshon City's great harbor, a mass of ships rode at anchor or were winched into the docks.
A line of Naval patrol boats - ML's and MTB's - were moored close to the foreshore and there was a destroyer and two corvettes at anchor.