anchor vs lodge

anchor

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

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

  • To stop; to fix or rest. 

  • To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman. 

  • To cast anchor; to come to anchor. 

  • To provide emotional stability for a person in distress. 

noun
  • Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place. 

  • A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. 

  • A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink. 

  • The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.) 

  • A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. 

  • That which gives stability or security. 

  • A screw anchor. 

  • Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament. 

  • One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta. 

  • The thirty-fifth Lenormand card. 

  • A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area. 

  • One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges. 

  • The brake of a vehicle. 

  • A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player. 

  • A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot. 

  • A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature. 

  • An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501). 

  • The final runner in a relay race. 

  • An anchorman or anchorwoman. 

  • Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge. 

lodge

verb
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position. 

  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.). 

  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. 

  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. 

  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time. 

  • To drive (an animal) to covert. 

  • To cause to flatten, as grass or grain. 

  • To firmly fix in a specified position. 

  • To stay in any place or shelter. 

  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety. 

noun
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake. 

  • The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt. 

  • A collection of objects lodged together. 

  • An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household. 

  • A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. 

  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn. 

  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. 

  • A local chapter of a trade union. 

  • A den or cave. 

  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 

  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons. 

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