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.
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.
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.
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.