Word Finder - anchorage

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A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge..

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A fee charged for anchoring.

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That into which something is anchored or fastened.

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the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge

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The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.

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The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

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The set of anchors belonging to a ship.

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The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.

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Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

The Pescadore lalands afford the best anchorage in this part of Japan.

The anchorage is good and safe, and the harbour is one of the best on the Pacific coast of South America.

There is no good anchorage in rough weather.

The anchorage is safe, and the bay full of fish; the harbour has a certain amount of trade.

It lies on the north-west of the peninsula of Leitimor, and has a safe and commodious anchorage.

As the prevailing winds are westerly, the safest anchorage is on the north-east.

The harbour was enlarged in 1887, and the bay is easily accessible and affords good anchorage.

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U47 made her way to the main fleet anchorage.

Driven onto a lee shore, ships run into any sheltered anchorage.

There is also a Doig Anchorage located on the north west side of Princess Royal Island.

There is anchorage for steamers in 5 to 6 fathoms. Vessels were loaded and discharged by lighters from the beach.

The harbours which played so important a part in antiquity are nearly all silted up, and, with the exception of Beirut, afford no safe anchorage for the large vessels of modern times.

The Bay of Spezia is sheltered from all except southerly winds, and on its western shore are numerous openings, which afford perfectly safe anchorage in all weathers.

Olaf's own ships went past the anchorage of Eric Hakonson and his allies in a long column without order, as no attack was expected.

It is the only safe port easily accessible to large vessels for over 1000 m., between Sfax in Tunisia and Alexandria, for, although there is safe and deep anchorage in the recess of the Gulf of Bomba, the entrance is rocky and difficult.

It is the only port of Senegal affording safe anchorage for the largest ships.

Its harbour consists of an outer and inner anchorage, the former an open roadstead, which are separated by a remarkable stone reef running parallel with the shore-line, leaving an inside passage 400 to 500 ft.

The entrance to the inner anchorage, which has a depth of about 20 ft., is opposite Fort Brum in the northern part of the city, and is marked by a small Dutch fort (Picao) and a lighthouse at the northern extremity of the reef.

As the mouth of the river is obstructed by a bar and its current is swift, the anchorage is outside in an open roadstead, only slightly protected on the south.

Immediately north of the Gulf of Guayaquil is the Bay of Santa Plena, with a small port of the same name, which has a good, well-sheltered anchorage and is the landing-place of the West Coast cable.

It is divided midway by the large island of Puna, at the eastern end of which is the anchorage for steamers too large to ascend the Guayas.

It is richly wooded, and has a well-sheltered anchorage much frequented by whalers in search of water and fresh provisions.

The Persian Gulf is lacking in good harbours, anchorage being mostly shallow and exposed.

Railways connect the harbour with the town, and the town with Motupiko, &c. The harbour, with extensive wharves, is protected by the long and remarkable Boulder Bank, whose southern portion forms the natural breakwater to that anchorage.

The name also belongs to the river which flowed into the sea immediately to the S.E., at the mouth of which there was, according to Strabo, an anchorage.

The anchorage is an open roadstead protected to some extent by headlands with a lighthouse at Santapalli.

At Silam, on Darvel Bay, there is good anchorage; and Kudat in Marudu Bay, first surveyed by Commander Johnstone of H.M.S.

As the administrative headquarters of the district, and the chief port on the Coromandel coast after Madras, Cocanada was formerly of considerable importance, but its shipping trade has declined, owing to the silting of the anchorage, and to the construction of the railway.

The anchorage is an open roadstead, with two lighthouses.

There are dry-docks and an excellent anchorage.

A lighthouse has been erected at the entrance, but reefs render approach difficult, and the outer anchorage is fully exposed to west and north and not good holding.

Though the harbour is deep and extensive, and possessed of excellent anchorage, large vessels have to be moored at a considerable distance from the shore.

From its healthy situation and the convenience of its anchorage, Chi-fu has become a favourite rendezvous for the fleets of the European powers in Chinese waters, and consequently it has at times been an important coaling station.

The site thus chosen had an excellent anchorage and was defended by the river from the Mahrattas, who harried the districts on the other side.

William Dampier (c. 1688) and others speak of the number of foreign merchants settled there - English, Dutch, Danes, Portuguese, Chinese, &c. Dampier says the anchorage was rarely without ten or fifteen sail of different nations, bringing vast quantities of rice, as well as silks, chintzes, muslins and opium.

The fairway between this bank, which begins to the west of Dumbarton, and the southern shore constitutes the safest anchorage in the upper firth.

The harbour works board, constituted in 1877, improved the river channel and the bar; made wharves and embankments; lighted the lower reaches of the river by electricity, so as to allow vessels to enter by night; and constructed a breakwater and counter-mole outside the bar of the river Nervion, between Santurce, Portugalete and the opposite headland at the village of Algorta, so as to secure deep anchorage and easy access to the river.

It affords good anchorage, with nearly 7 fathoms of water, and is well sheltered, except from winds which blow from points between south-east and south-west.

In the latter winds Sorrento should be especially avoided, as no safe anchorage can be found there at less than 15 fathoms, and the same remark applies to Capri with winds from S.W.

A cross piece at the end of the Molo San Vincenzo has made the head of that structure into the form of the Greek letter gamma, thus affording considerable protection to the anchorage.

Santa Marta is situated on a small, almost landlocked bay, well protected from prevailing winds by high land on the north and north-east, affording excellent anchorage in waters free from shoaling through the deposit of silt.

It has a fairly good and safe anchorage, and is the commercial outlet for a very fertile agricultural district.

The anchorage, about a mile from the town, in 4 to 6 fathoms, is nothing but an open roadstead.

The bay affords good anchorage, but only small vessels can come up to the two moles.

In 1825 another volcanic eruption took place accompanied by earthquakes, and two hills were thrown up. The port of Naos on the south-east of the island affords safe anchorage.

It is partly situated on a fine bay affording good anchorage, for which it is largely resorted to by the numerous yacht clubs of the Clyde.

The chief islands on the west of the chain enclosing the Koro Sea are Koro, Ngau, Moala and Totoya, all productive, affording good anchorage, elevated and picturesque.

On the other hand a string of islands extends along this coast, which offer many safe and easily accessible places of anchorage to ships during the fierce winter gales which rage in the Adriatic. The principal are Pago, Pasman, Isola Lunga and Isola Incoronata, Brazza, Lesina, Curzola and Meleda.

The besiegers of Chioggia were at the end of their powers of endurance, and Pisani had been compelled to give a promise that the siege would be raised, when Zeno's fleet reached the anchorage off Brondolo on the 1st of January 1380.