To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
To stop; to fix or rest.
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
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 place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place in the ground.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
The combination of process and actuator.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.