Wiktionary
n. A foul anchor
Usage examples of "fouled anchor".
Brewer spent his time in the Fouled Anchor keeping an eye on things, sitting at a rear table in the bar playing poker or acey-deucey, making a few loans, serving as respected intermediary between westerners wanting to do business with Chinese and doing a little business himself.
Marines wore a fouled anchor superimposed on a representation of the world as their branch-of-service insignia.
It had begun with the approach to Panama, with every nerve keyed up lest an ambush had been laid, and it had ended so far with this trying business of the fouled anchor.
The records of this paper company show that the fouled anchor stationery was made for them and is used on all their ships.
The neatly stacked sheets of fine paper bore her newly granted sigil, a sword and a fouled anchor.
Bond ran his eyes down the man from the sparse close-cropped black and grey hair, like iron filings sprinkled over the bullet head, to the tattooed eagle above a fouled anchor on the right forearm, and then down to the naked leathery feet that stood nautically square on the carpet.
Nearly everyone who frequented the place now were either the few still serving with the fleet or ex-service, easily identified by the gold star of the army, fleet pin, or fouled anchor pin of a Marine on his collar.