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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.]
1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (Her.) An emblem of hope.

5. (Arch.)
(a) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building
together.
(b) 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.

6. (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.

Anchor \An"chor\, n. [OE. anker, ancre, AS. ancra, fr. L.
anachoreta. See {Anchoret}.]
An anchoret. [Obs.] --Shak.

Anchor \An"chor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Anchored}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Anchoring}.] [Cf. F. ancrer.]
1. To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor
a ship.

2. To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to
anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.

Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
--Shak.

Anchor \An"chor\, v. i.
1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the
captain) anchored in the stream.

2. To stop; to fix or rest.

My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. --Shak.

Highlighting Bush's pro-defense stance, two aircraft carriers rested at anchor across the harbor as the vice president spoke to a sun-drenched Labor Day audience of several hundred people outside a wholesale fish company.
Ms. Norville is talented and overwhelmingly pretty and would be fine as a reporter or a newsmagazine anchor.
She had been discussing a sci-fi movie with the show's other fill-in anchor, Bill Plante.
The Jordanian monarch has long been a pro-Western voice of moderation who was viewed by the U.S. as a necessary anchor for any Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
It gives me an anchor." His house appears to be a modest white ranch from the outside, with only the extra large parking lot and guard booth at the driveway seeming out of character with the Aurora neighborhood, an affluent suburb south of Buffalo.
She did not rule out his returning to the anchor spot sometime in the future.
Now those winds are ripping away the sand and soil that anchor the beacon, and soon its light, like the whalers, will be gone.
When Cronkite left as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in 1981 after 14 years as the top-rated network newscaster, he was made a special correspondent with an annual salary of about $1 million.
NBC News' Tom Brokaw will anchor a 30-minute special later in the evening to discuss abortion, but Willke wasn't impressed.
Last month, she was named to succeed Maury Povich as the show's anchor in the 1991-92 season.
You are lucky you have got the rouble to anchor you to reality.' Then I gave them a business story.
West German television, in an early evening newscast, showed two motorized Greenpeace dinghies just under the Iowa's giant anchor, which was hovering in the air.
One of CNN's original anchor staff, Williams joined NBC News in March a year ago.
The Beirut newspaper As-Safir said it would anchor between Moslem and Christian waters eight miles out.
Norville became the show's news anchor on Sept.5.
ABC will follow NBC's lead and send its morning show anchor to Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving week to be with with U.S. troops sent there after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Accompanied by three escort ships, the Saratoga had dropped anchor off Haifa on Thursday, and shore leave for 1,920 of the crew began Friday.
But while the British are playing by the rules of a fixed exchange rate system in which the D-Mark provides the main anchor, the Americans are playing a game of their own in which the rules are purely domestic.
"It looks like the vessel rode up over its anchor and punctured itself," Kime said.
Justice William J. Brennan, the court's liberal anchor, has called him a "splendid" chief justice.
The federal government does require that various seat-belt parts, such as straps and anchor bolts, meet certain minimum-strength standards.
She left in December after 13 years to do prime-time news specials this year and anchor the "NBC Nightly News" when Tom Brokaw is on assignment or vacation.
The outgoing government's main policy anchor was its commitment to limit the budget deficit to around 5 per cent of GDP.
TEAM OF FRANK & ELLERBEE REUNITED: Former NBC News President Reuven Frank is joining Lucky Duck Productions, the show-making company of former NBC News anchor Linda Ellerbee.
One of his reports, shown on CNN, included a discussion with CNN anchor Bernard Shaw of what he'd seen.
The budget deficit limit became the main anchor of economic policy for both domestic and external reasons. Lax social policy in the past has saddled Poland, a country of just under 40m people, with 8m pensioners.
An ocean liner dropped anchor in the Thames for the first time in a decade last year, the first of 25 booked up to 1991.
The two other ships, which have helicopter pads on board, were to remain at anchor and offer their helicopters to give aid where necessary, the Pentagon said.
The 4,000-ton Baroness M had been scheduled to anchor off the port of Jounieh, the Christians' only sea link with the outside world, after darkness fell to pick up some of more than 3,000 Christians waiting there.
After several delays, the Navy hospital ship Mercy weighed anchor Wednesday night at Oakland, Calif., en route to the Persian Gulf.

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