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See Drag sail, under 4th Drag.

A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

To loose from the anchor, as a ship. De Quincey.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

An anchor is said to be astay, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse. To back an anchor (Naut.), to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one. -- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other…

The straight part or shank of an anchor.

as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

n plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the…

hat part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.