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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.

The common recoil escapement.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.

by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.

Fit for anchorage.

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

Anchor-shaped.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

Hermitlike.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

Same as Anchoret.

An anchoress. [R.]

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. [Obs.] Heywood.