noun. A heavy object attached to a vessel by a cable, rope, or chain and dropped into the water to keep the vessel in place either by its weight or by its flukes, which grip the bottom.

noun. A rigid point of support, as for securing a rope.

noun. A source of security or stability.

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noun. An athlete, usually the strongest member of a team, who performs the last stage of a relay race or other competition.

noun. The person at the end of a tug-of-war team.

noun. An anchorperson.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To secure (a vessel) with an anchor.

intransitive verb. To secure with a fastener or similar device: synonym: fasten.

intransitive verb. To cause to be fixed in place; fix or immobilize.

intransitive verb. To cause to feel attached or secure.

intransitive verb. To provide a basis for; establish or found.

intransitive verb. To serve as an anchor for (a team or competition).

intransitive verb. To narrate or coordinate (a newscast).

intransitive verb. To provide or form an anchor store for.

intransitive verb. To drop anchor or lie at anchor.

To fix or secure in a particular place by means of an anchor; place at anchor: as, to anchor a ship.

Figuratively, to fix or fasten; affix firmly.

To cast anchor; come to anchor; lie or ride at anchor: as, the ship anchored outside the bar.

Figuratively, to keep hold or be firmly fixed in any way.

noun. An anchoret; a hermit.

noun. In the tug of war, the man at the end of the line, who is supposed to hold while the rest endeavor to pull.

noun. Same as chapelet, 4.

noun. Erroneous spelling of anker.

noun. A device for securing a vessel to the ground under water by means of a cable.

noun. Any similar device for holding fast or checking the motion of a movable object.

noun. Specifically — The apparatus at the opposite end of the field from the engine of a steam-plow, to which pulleys are fixed, round which the endless band or rope that moves the plow passes.

noun. The device by which the extremities of the chains or wire ropes of a suspension-bridge are secured. See anchorage.

noun. Figuratively, that which gives stability or security; that on which dependence is placed.

noun. In architecture: A name for the arrow-head or tongue ornament used especially in the so-called egg-and-dart molding.

noun. A metallic clamp, sometimes of fanciful design, fastened on the outside of a wall to the end of a tie-rod or strap connecting it with an opposite wall to prevent bulging.

noun. In zoology: Some appendage or arrangement of parts by which a parasite fastens itself upon its host.

noun. Something shaped like an anchor; an ancora. See ancora.

noun. An iron plate placed in the back part of a coke-oven before it is charged with coal. See anchor-oven.

noun. An anchoret.

intransitive verb. To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

intransitive verb. To stop; to fix or rest.

transitive verb. To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor.

transitive verb. To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.

noun. An emblem of hope.

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noun. A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

noun. 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.

noun. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

noun. an achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson.

noun. See under Ice.

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