One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
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.
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 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.
A cohesive strand of something.
A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
A hard line drive.
The small intestines.
Semen being ejaculated.
Death by hanging.
An individual length of such material.
A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
Rohypnol.
Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
To tie (something) with rope.
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
My life is a mess; I might as well rope.