Word Finder - anchored

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To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.

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To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

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Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

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To stop; to fix or rest.

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To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

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To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

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To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

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Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.

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an anchored cross

Smiling, he anchored it with the magnet.

He anchored in some confusion in Calais roads.

The ship anchored near the shore, where barbarians in ill-fitting clothing made of animal skins awaited them.

The "Elephant" anchored almost in the middle of the line.

The British admiral had barely anchored at Zante before he was informed that the sultan's forces were putting to sea.

Gabriel wrapped his arms around her, his warmth, strength and scent all that anchored her to this world.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

The allies, who were all closely engaged, were anchored among their enemies, and the result was obtained by their heavier broadsides and their better gunnery.

She was in such shallow water that the Confederate iron-clad ram could not get near her at ebb tide, and about 5 o'clock the Confederates postponed her capture until the next day and anchored off Sewell's Point.

You'd be anchored on a line tied to a top bollard, secured in a harness.

Captain George Vancouver (1758-1798), in charge of a British exploring expedition then engaged in mapping the coast (1792-1794), was sceptical of the existence of the river, but Captain Gray, undiscouraged, persisted in the search and on the 11th of May 1792 anchored in the river which he named Columbia in honour of his ship. The later claim of the United States to all the territory drained by the river was based chiefly upon this discovery by Captain Gray, who had succeeded where Spanish and British had failed.

The leading British ship, the "Defiance" (74), carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Graves, anchored just south of the Trekroner.

We cannot to-day determine the exact homes or provenance of these freebooters, who were a terror alike to the Frankish empire, to England and to Ireland and west Scotland, who only came into view when their ships anchored in some Christian harbour, and who were called now Normanni, now Dacii, now Danes, now Lochlannoch; which last, the Irish name for them, though etymologically " men of the lakes or bays," might as well be translated " Norsemen," seeing that Lochlann was the Irish for Norway.

After prolonged debates Grattan, on the 26th of May, spoke finally against the committal of the bill, ending with an impassioned peroration in which he declared, "I will remain anchored here with fidelity to the fortunes of my country, faithful to her freedom, faithful to her fall."

After wintering at Zara the fleet set sail on the 7th of April 1203, and on the 23rd of June anchored in the Bosporus.

An allied force of 37 British sail of the line, under command of the earl of Torrington (Arthur Herbert), and of 2 2 Dutch under C. Evertsen, was at anchor under the headland, while a French fleet of over 70 sail, commanded by the comte de Tourville, was anchored some miles off to the south-west.

The female heads are spinose with long pungent bracts, fall entire when ripe and are carried away by wind or sea, becoming finally anchored in the sand and falling to pieces.

We anchored in go to a aerobics studio whirlpools see some friends.

It is weighted with four corner sand pockets and four pegs so that it might be anchored in either sand or ground.

In September 1599 the fleet had entered the Pacific. The ships were then steered direct for Japan, and anchored off Bungo in April 1600.

Helped by a strong south wind, the British war-ships passed up the straits and anchored off the Seven Towers.

The revised Jerusalem Creed was quoted by Epiphanius in his treatise The Anchored One, c. A.D.

In this case the shore ends of the cantilevers are anchored to the abutments.

In narrow ravines a bridge of one span may be rolled out, if the projecting end is supported on a temporary suspension cable anchored on each side.

The French admiral, who had anchored above Newport, R.I., came to sea to meet him, but both fleets were scattered by storms. D'Estaing sailed to Boston on the 21st of August.

In France the Conservative Monarchical party had just shown its inability to preserve the Crown, whilst the Republic had anchored itself firmly by denouncing the clergy as its enemy.

A large boat, gaily decked out, representing that in which the victim used to be conveyed, was anchored near, and a gun on board fired every quarter of an hour during the night.

A Russian vessel anchored outside the port, and, in accordance with the agreement which he had made with the Russian empire, he was supplied with stores and ammunition, and a force of 3000 Albanians.

As the fire delivered under weigh was not effective, the offshore squadron anchored at about 10.30 A.M., and succeeded in silencing Fort Ras-el-Tmn.

In the reign of Sultan Bulkeiah Magellan's squadron anchored off the mouth of Brunei river in August 1521, and Pigafetta makes mention of the splendid court and the imperial magnificence of the Borneo capital.

Only yesterday I looked out the window and saw a four masted square rigger anchored in the bay.

We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore.

Became the sun, the hot sand, green seaweed anchored to a rock, swaying in the tide.

The self expanding stent is anchored above and below the aneurysm excluding the sac from the circulation.

In August 1945, she anchored in Tokyo Bay and was present during the signing of the Japanese surrender.

The crew member reported that the vessel had lost its anchors during a storm while anchored at Cape Fear.

This way, the sash will stay anchored, no matter what.

Anything that covers the seat should be well anchored.

He can fix your fighter, or, using his magnetic feet to keep anchored, roll himself out on the wing of your starship to effect inflight repairs.

The Turkish fleet which had come up from Cyprus and Crete anchored in the Gulf of Patras.

They sailed from Callao in December 1605, and discovered several islands of the New Hebrides group. They anchored in a bay of a large island which Quiros named " Australia del Espiritu Santo."

John Lorimer Worden (1818-1897), had left New York on the morning of the 6th of March; after a dangerous passage in which she twice narrowly escaped sinking, she arrived at Hampton Roads during the night of the 8th, and early in the morning of the 9th anchored near the "Minnesota."

The English commander put to sea, and found the enemy anchored on the coast of Flanders, in three divisions.

The allies were compelled to retreat, and De Ruyter, satisfied with having averted the invasion of his country, anchored at West-Kappel.

The actual cutting of the coal is chiefly performed by manual labour, the tool employed being a sharp-pointed double-armed pick, which is nearly straight, except when required for use in hard rock, when the arms are made with an « „ inclination or anchored.

The side spans are erected first on staging and anchored to the piers.

His men now suffering from scurvy, and his vessels requiring refitting, he anchored at Buru, one of the Moluccas, where the governor of the Dutch settlement supplied his wants.

At the end of 1626, the Swedish fleet, with 14,000 men on board, anchored in front of the chain of sand-dunes which separates the Frische-Haff from the Baltic. Pillau, the only Baltic port then accessible to ships of war, was at once occupied, and Konigsberg shortly afterwards was scared into a unconditional neutrality.

The British began bombarding the small island from a fleet of warships anchored offshore.

Every regulated vessel ensure the vessel is anchored within the limits of designated anchorage areas All parameters for designated anchorages are guidelines only.