anchor
A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
Noun 4 meanings
A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached.
The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
Verb 4 meanings
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
“Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.”
To stop; to fix or rest.
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
Etymology
From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora, anker, angora, and Ankara.
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ANCHOR at a glance
ANCHOR has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + H 4 + O 1 + R 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,754 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with anchor
All rhymes- AUTHOR9
- METAPHOR15
- ABHOR10
- COAUTHOR13
- PHOSPHOR18
- CAMPHOR16
- SENHOR9
- KHOR11
- ICHOR10
- PETRICHOR16
- MARKHOR16
- COANCHOR15
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- ANCHOS11
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