What is "weighed anchor"

Usage examples of "weighed anchor".

It might have been fancied that she had weighed anchor, thinking that she had to deal with her match, and had left the coast.

He had forgotten to look again when they weighed anchor, adding the weight of the anchor, and perhaps the cable too, if it was stowed well forward which it probably was, to leave as much space as possible for the original task of carrying cargo.

As soon as the proclamation was made, in an instant they all weighed anchor and left Utica, and repaired to the place commanded them.

From the moment the Phalarope had weighed anchor he had not spared himself or his efforts to maintain his hold over the ship.

On the fourth of September, with a fine spanking breeze at northwest, we weighed anchor and sailed out of Adventure Bay.

But from the moment they had weighed anchor and the first excitement of slipping out of harbour in a snow squall, the weather had defied even the power of thought.

In the afternoon, to the distant strains of a military band and the cheers of a crowd along the waterfront, Undine weighed anchor, and with Nervion in the lead, her great foresail displaying a resplendent cross of scarlet and gold, worked clear of the roads before setting more canvas to the wind.

Steed told his captain, and when the ship had weighed anchor he started his duties as head feeder of the starving.