LekhoriLekhoriA tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
An anchorite or anchoress.
Nor earth to me giue foode, nor heauen light, / Sport and repoſe lock from me day and night, / To deſperation turn my truſt and hope, / And Anchors cheere in priſon be my ſcope, […]
Alternative form of anker.
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
A male given name.
From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieva...
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To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.