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| adrift |
without anchor, as a boat; drifting. [1/4 definitions] |
| anchor |
to hold steady, as with an anchor. [3/7 definitions] |
| anchorage |
a place where vessels can anchor. [1/4 definitions] |
| anchorless |
combined form of anchor. |
| anchorwoman |
in broadcasting, a female anchor on a news program. |
| aweigh |
in nautical terminology, not quite touching the bottom of a body of water (used of an anchor). |
| berth |
the space allotted to a ship to dock or anchor. [2/6 definitions] |
| bower2 |
a heavy anchor, situated at the bow of a ship. |
| cable |
a heavy chain used to moor or anchor ships. [1/11 definitions] |
| capstan |
a vertical drum or post on a ship, rotated to hoist weights, such as an anchor, by winding in rope or cable. [1/2 definitions] |
| cathead |
a beam projecting from the bow of a ship, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured. |
| coanchor |
combined form of anchor. |
| drogue |
an anchor, esp. a canvas sack used for slowing a boat and keeping her prow into the wind. [1/2 definitions] |
| fluke1 |
a triangular tip, as on an anchor or the head of a spear or arrow. [1/2 definitions] |
| grapnel |
a small anchor with three or more pointed hooks or flukes. [1/2 definitions] |
| hawse |
an opening in a ship through which an anchor cable is passed; hawsehole. [1/2 definitions] |
| hawsehole |
a hole in the bow of a ship through which an anchor cable is passed. |
| hawsepipe |
an iron or steel pipe in the hole on either side of a ship's bow, through which the anchor cable is passed. |
| kedge |
to move (a ship) by hauling on the line of its kedge anchor, then dropping the anchor in the desired position. [2/3 definitions] |
| moor2 |
to anchor (a ship, balloon, or other vessel) with cables or lines. [2/4 definitions] |
| pitch1 |
to establish, set up, or anchor solidly. [1/23 definitions] |
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