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Brit. /ˈaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈæŋkər/
Forms: early Old English 1500s–1600s ankor, Old English ancr- (inflected form), Old English ancra, Old English ancre- (in compounds), Old English oncear- (perhaps transmission error), Old English oncr- (inflected form), Old English oncyr- (in compounds, rare), Old English–Middle English ancer, Old English (rare) Middle English–1600s (1800s– (English regional)) anker, Old English 1500s–1600s ancor, late Old English amcras (accusative plural, transmission error), Middle English ankere, Middle English ankir, Middle English ankyr, Middle English aunker, Middle English aunkir, Middle English hanker, Middle English hankor, Middle English–1500s ankur, Middle English–1600s ancher, Middle English–1600s anchore, Middle English–1600s ancour, Middle English–1600s ancre, Middle English–1600s ankre, 1500s anccor, 1500s anckre, 1500s ancore, 1500s anger, 1500s ankker, 1500s–1600s anchour, 1500s–1600s ancker, 1500s–1700s anckor, 1500s– anchor; Scottish pre-1700 anchour, pre-1700 ancker, pre-1700 ancre, pre-1700 ankere, pre-1700 ankir, pre-1700 ankire, pre-1700 ankyr, pre-1700 ankyre, pre-1700 hankar, pre-1700 hanker, pre-1700 1700s– anchor, pre-1700 1800s– anker.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin ancora, French ancre.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin ancora, also anchora (see below). In later use reinforced by Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ancre (c1170) < classical Latin ancora device for mooring a ship, also used figuratively of a person who provides support or confidence < ancient Greek ἄγκυρα < a base ultimately denoting something curved (reflected by ἄγκος mountain valley: see ancyle n.) + an extended form (in -r- ) of the Indo-European base of ancient Greek -ία -ia suffix1. The Latin word was also borrowed into other West Germanic languages; compare Old Frisian anker, Middle Dutch anker (Dutch anker), Middle Low German anker, late Old High German anker (Middle High German anker, German Anker).The borrowing of the Latin word into the West Germanic languages probably reflects the adoption of the stock anchor (with its curved flukes) in the North Sea region; however, this is likely to have been a complex process, and the chronology is difficult to establish. The loanword apparently reached Old High German last, and perhaps via another language. Old High German senkil , sinkila anchor, lit. ‘sinker’ may reflect an earlier technology. Compare also Old Icelandic akkeri , Old Swedish akkare , ankare (Swedish ankare ), Old Danish akkaræ (Danish anker , also regional (Jutland) akker ), apparently originally < a West Germanic language, probably either Old Frisian or Old English. Parallels outside Germanic. Compare (directly < Latin) Catalan àncora (13th cent.), Spanish áncora (c1240; now usually ancla (c1295)), Portuguese âncora (13th cent.), Italian ancora (13th cent.), and also Early Irish ingor (later reborrowed as aincaire ), Welsh angor (early 12th cent.), Old Cornish ancar . Inflection in Old English. In Old English usually a strong masculine (ancor ), as in Old Frisian and Old High German. With the weak masculine ancra compare late Old High German ankero (in isolated attestation) and also Old Icelandic akkeri . Specific forms. The current spelling anchor reflects the classical Latin variant anchora. Specific senses. With sense 5b compare earlier anchorman n. 4; with sense 5c compare earlier anchor v. 5 and anchorman n. 5; with sense 5d compare earlier anchor v. 4c and anchorman n. 6.
1. A device for mooring a ship to the seabed, typically consisting of a heavy metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes at one end, and attached at the other to a cable or chain, by which it is raised or lowered as required.bower-, cone-, drag-, grapnel-, ice-, mushroom, stern-anchor, etc.: see first element. See also kedge-anchor n., plight-anchor n., sheet-anchor n. a.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor
anchoreOE
mud-hook1827
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xiii. 200 Þa ongunnon þa nedlingas & þa scipmen þa oncras upp teon, & in þone sæ syndon [L. anchoris in mare missis]; woldon þæt scip mid gefæstnian.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 23 Nov. (2013) 218 Þa het he hym gebyndan anne ancran on hys sweoran and hyne forsendan on sæ.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 114 As ancre under schipes bord. forto halde þe schip.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12746 Wind wex an honde ankeres [c1300 Otho ancreas] heo up droȝen.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 366 (MED) Þe mariners flet on flod, Til anker hem brast.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvii. 40 Thei hadden takun vp the ancris.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 418 Kable oþer capstan to clyppe to her ankrez.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. l. 691 Ankyrs rapys bath saile and ar.
1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 10v/2 He lete the ancres wynde up and sayled into the hye see.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 26 Wedges of gold, great anchors, heapes of pearle. View more context for this quotation
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. i. §4. 331 They therefore, not only mored themselues strongly by their Anchors, but chained the sides of their Gallies together.
1676 R. Williams George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes 357 An Anchor strong enough to ride a Ship in most weathers.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 80 Not a Ship would stir..too fast held by their Anchors.
1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 30 Jan. (1967) III. i. 277 About 7 oclock..the anchor started and the Ship drove off the bank.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xv. 392 The most ancient anchors were only large stones bored through the middle.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 Anchors of rusty fluke.
1877 J. A. Stone Illustrated India v. 128 Formerly it was not very uncommon when raising anchor, to find human bodies entangled with it.
1925 H. Belloc Cruise of Nona 315 Be at the pains of getting your anchor up properly, and unstocking it.
1978 W. B. McCloskey Highliners (1980) xiii. 157 Go put out all the fenders you can find, then help Ivan with the anchor.
2009 P. van den Boogaerde Shipwrecks of Madagascar vii. 214 Before the second anchor bit the vessel moved back about 500 feet.
2. figurative. A person who or thing which provides stability, support, or confidence, esp. in an otherwise uncertain situation.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or security > that which gives security
anchoreOE
tower13..
strengthc1425
rock1526
anchorage1596
assurer1607
anchor line1614
aventinea1625
anchorage ground1758
anchorman1895
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. vi. 402 [Ðin] ancer is giet [on eorðan fæ]st [L. tenaces haerent ancorae]; þæt sint ða ealdor[men] þe we ær ymb spræcon.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) iv. 4 Regularia precepta tenaci mentis anchora seruantes : regullice bebodu mid fæstum geþances ancran gehealdende.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. vi. 19 The which as an ankir [L. anchoram] we han sikir to the soule [1611 King James Which hope we haue as an anker of the soule.]
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3780 So farith love that yelde [read selde] in oon Holdith his anker.
c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine l. 829 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 466 My ankire, my Ioy.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. ccxixv Ye rote and grounde of all & the ancre yt never fayleth.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xliii. 284 For constantnesse to be an ancker for leuitie to ride at.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 13 Say Warwicke was our Anchor: what of that? View more context for this quotation
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 303 One Passage more..his last Anchor, to prove his notable point.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. civ. 346 Forgive me then, my dearest life, my earthly good, the visible anchor of my future hope!
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 150 Hope as an anchor firm and sure, holds fast.
1819 New Bon Ton Mag. Mar. 302 This Jesus, whom Paine deprecates, is our anchor and hope.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 13 Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
1910 N.Y. Observer 17 Mar. 339/2 Christ is our anchor.
2011 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 19 She was my best friend, my anchor, my everything.
3.
a. Any of various devices or instruments used to hold something in place, esp. in the construction of buildings, tracks, etc.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > means of fixing securely
anchor1410
fixture1791
security1791
retainer1820
fixator1874
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber) > parts of > spicule on skin
anchor1410
1410 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 2 [Two] ankers [in the east end of the Guildhall weighing 38 lb].
c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 18 (MED) Þis bastelle [in þe see] way tyede wit a hundrethe ankers.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1372 (MED) And þat [sc. a timber tower] he fiches..sa fast to þe wall..And band hire..bigly to-gedire With..fyue score aunkirs.
1495 Peterborough Churchwardens' Accts. in Publ. Northants. Rec. Soc. (1939) 9 61 For makyng of ij ankyrs and ij boltys.
1543 in P. Northeast Boxford Churchwarden's Accts. 1530–61 (1982) 42 The brydg..It. for vj ankers with dobyll keyes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Yron dogge, ancre, or hoke to staye a gable. Trabalis clauus, uel hamus.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 155 The forked stick to hang upon the ground, to be as an Anchor to keep the forked stick from moving out of your intended place till the Pike come. View more context for this quotation
1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 234 By holding a piece by iron anchors, placed on free-stone in a good wall, considerably increases its strength.
1820 tr. S. van Leeuwen Comm. Roman-Dutch Law ii. xx. 195 The right of having an anchor through another's wall, or placing a beam upon the building of another.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §22. 157 In some places, however, the anchor [sc. an axe] had but a loose hold.
1888 F. H. Newell in Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio VI. vii. 499 The lowest shell is supported up to the proper height in the sand by a small tin tube called the ‘anchor’.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 2/1 The tram lines that corrugate most freely are those which are laid on the concrete foundation without anchors.
1951 Gloss. Terms Plastics (B.S.I.) 44 Anchor. In injection moulding. An undercut extension to the feed. It is usually located on an ejector pin to facilitate the removal of the stalk from the mould.
1998 Accidents N. Amer. Mountaineering 1999 68 As a result of a late start, they didn't get to the anchors until dark.
b. Any of various devices or weights used to secure a hot air balloon, airship, etc., to the ground.The ship referred to in quot. 1679 is a hypothetical aerial craft proposed by F. Lana Terzi in Prodromo overo saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all'arte maestra (1670), resembling a one-masted sailing ship suspended by four ropes, each attached from the hull to a large spherical vacuum chamber.
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1679 tr. F. Lana Terzi in Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 27 Our Ship..may undergo many dangers, but none greater than what Water Ships are subject to. For as these, so ours can make use of Anchors to fasten to Trees.
1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia lx. 249 The Balloon is moored by the Anchor, Grapple, and snatch Block.
1869 tr. J. Verne Five Weeks in Balloon x. 107 The balloon experienced a violent shock: the anchor had doubtless caught some fissure of the rock hidden under this gigantic herbage.
1904 Manch. Guardian 5 Nov. 8/5 The anchor of the Baldwin airship, which escaped after a trial trip at St. Louis, caught in a tree about 16 miles from the city.
2016 Associated Press State & Local (Nexis) 16 Feb. He stressed that the lack of batteries [in an auto-deflation device] did not contribute to the cause of the blimp tearing free of its anchor.
c. slang. Chiefly in plural. The brakes of a motor vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > brake or braking apparatus
brake1772
gripe1792
brake-apparatus1885
brake-gear1908
anchor1936
binders1942
1936 Daily Herald 5 Aug. 8/4 List of busmen's slang phrases..Anchors (Brakes).
1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving vii. 55 There is more to it..than just putting on the brakes—or, to use the colourful language of the sporting motorist, ‘clapping on the anchors’.
1989 K. Roberts Winterwood & Other Hauntings 59 I..prayed he wouldn't do the first thing that came into his head and step on the anchors.
2002 S. Maloney Something Fish (2008) 122 I stomped on the anchors, the steering juddered and the Magna went into a skid, wheels locked.
4.
a. A representation or image of an anchor.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > others
quathriganc1175
starc1384
yoke1415
sheafc1420
arrow1548
thunder-dart1569
memento mori1598
quadriga1600
Triton1601
anchor1621
chimera1634
forest-work1647
Bacchanaliaa1680
Bacchanal1753
subject1781
harp1785
mask1790
arrowhead1808
gorgoneion1842
Amazonomachia1845
Amazonomachy1893
mythograph1893
physicomorph1895
horns of consecration1901
double image1939
motion study1977
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. vi. 80 Seleucus had an anchor on his thigh, and so had his posterity, as Trogus recordes.
1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) 8 Anchors often occur in Coat-Armour, as being Emblems of Hope,..Hope being, as it were, the Anchor which holds us firm to our Faith in all Adversities.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 274 His long skinny arms all covered with anchors and arrows and letters.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 118/2 The table..is a real ship's wheel, with a glass top... The brass lamp base is decorated with an anchor.
2015 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 4 Dec. 16 Don't even think about ‘sailor-inspired’ outfits featuring anchors and gold braid.
b. Architecture. An anchor- or arrowhead-shaped ornament used in conjunction with an egg-shaped form to decorate an ovolo or echinus moulding. See also egg and anchor n. at egg n. Compounds 3.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > ornament on moulding
anchor1663
stud1686
oval1706
mirror1841
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 70 Small Beads with round ones and long ones at one peny, and..the edges and anckers at foure pence per foot.
1785 Ann. Agric. 3 23 The cornice, the eggs, and anchors of the ovaloes have resisted the weather.
1824 J. Elmes Gen. Dict. Fine Arts at Capital Take four parts for the boulter, which is one fourth of a circle, and is to be carved with eggs and anchors.
1896 W. A. Sylvester Mod. Carpentry & Building 247 Echinus, a moulding of the same form as the ovolo or quarter-round, but properly so called only when ornamented or carved with eggs and anchors.
1996 W. Bucher Dict. Building Preserv. 162 Egg and anchor, a convex moulding with a series of bas-relief ovoids alternating with anchors with two flukes.
†c. The chape or (occasionally) the tongue of a buckle. Obsolete (English regional in later use).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > buckle > part of
tonguec1325
chape1686
anchor1761
buckle-ring1761
1761 L. Chambaud Dict. Fr. & Eng. at Châpe The anchor of a buckle.
1776 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions III. lv. 79 There is no guessing at the value of a buckle, while these heavy tongs and anchors are in them.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 5/2 Anchor,..(2) The tongue of a buckle.
d. Zoology. Each of numerous anchor-shaped calcareous ossicles beneath the skin of many holothuroids (sea cucumbers).
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1858 Proc. Zool. Soc. 26 363 In some examples [of Synapta digitata] the anchors are very few, and ranged in a double line along the muscular bands.
1912 C. F. Baker in First Ann. Rep. Laguna Marine Lab. 88 The peculiar character of the dermal anchors and plates in this species are very distinctive.
2004 J. M. Bohn in T. Heinzeller & J. H. Nebelsick Echinoderms 519/1 Anchors large, with smooth flukes and slightly concave vertex lacking minute knobs.
5.
a. A person at the end of the rope in a tug of war team. Cf. anchorman n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > tug-of-war > participant
anchor1877
anchorman1887
anchorwoman1898
tugger1909
1877 Tauntonian 7 Apr. 79/1 Woollcombe, who pulled at the back of his team, having got a good footing sat down, and so became an anchor for his team.
1909 T. A. Cook et al. 4th Olympiad 92 Tug of War..The Americans were magnificent athletes, but were not aware how to tie an anchor or how to place their men.
1920 O. Wister Straight Deal xv. 249 Crossing the ocean were some young English and Americans, who got up an international tug-of-war. A friend of mine was anchor of our team.
2011 Kentish Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Oct. The Carpenters brought in their secret weapon, burly tractor driver Chris Hope, to act as anchor.
b. Originally U.S. Sport (esp. Athletics and Swimming). A person who takes part in the final leg of a relay race. Also: the final leg of a relay race. Cf. anchorman n. 4, anchorwoman n. 1b. See also Compounds 1b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > relay race > last person in
anchorman1907
anchor1913
anchorwoman1919
1913 Our Paper 3 May 213/2 A game runner and a fast one is the anchor of the E. H. S. team.
1958 Cuero (Texas) Rec. 27 Mar. 2/1 Bowden..may come back to run the mile anchor in the distance medley.
1971 R. D. Mandell Nazi Olympics v. 145 A strong girl, anchor in her relay on the way to an Olympic record, drops the baton in the final pass.
1995 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 24 Feb. iii. 6/2 It could come down to..the last swimmer... Our anchor on that relay is our captain Jim Patla.
c. Originally U.S. A person who presents and coordinates a live television or radio programme, esp. a news or sports programme, alongside other contributors. Cf. anchorman n. 5, anchorwoman n. 3. See also Compounds 1d.Frequently with modifying word indicating the type of programme presented. Cf. news anchor n. at news n. Compounds 3.In quot. 1960, apparently a figurative use of at anchor at Phrases 1; Douglas Edwards was a news anchor for the broadcaster CBS.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
1960 Images of Peace (Columbia Broadcasting System) 59 At anchor, in New York, will be Douglas Edwards.]
1962 Boston Globe 31 May 16/5 With Doug Edwards (demoted in favor of Walter Cronkite as network news anchor) handling the narration, [etc.].
1965 Guardian 20 Sept. 4/8 ‘Panorama’ will continue... Richard Dimbleby remains the anchor.
1990 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Aug. 23 A studio sports anchor's job is potentially head-splitting.
2017 J. Cohen Moving Kings 60 The anchor broke in with commentary about the unprecedented profusion of new Grad missiles..being shot into Israel from Gaza.
d. Association Football. Also more fully midfield anchor. A defensive midfielder who plays in a position just in front of the team's defence, breaking up the opposing team's attacks and winning back possession of the ball. Cf. anchorman n. 6. See also Compounds 1e.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > types of
marksman1927
marker1928
stopper1934
full back1958
sweeper1964
back four1966
libero1967
clogger1970
anchorman1974
target man1975
shadow1976
anchor1984
1984 Times 22 Mar. 40/5 Menotti shifted the emphasis of his side by replacing his midfield anchor, Alonso, with supplementary striker Clos.
1986 Times 18 Feb. 26/3 Reid, ruled out for five months with a damaged Achilles tendon, is a more positive anchor than Wilkins.
1995 Independent (Nexis) 6 Sept. 26 The only time Venables' England have operated without an anchor, such as Paul Ince or David Batty, Sweden tore through the exposed middle.
2006 News of World Football Ann. 3 Should he install Owen Hargreaves as the permanent midfield anchor?
6. Billiards (originally U.S.). In baulkline billiards: a cannon in which the two object balls, situated on either side of a baulkline, are struck without disturbing their position, allowing the player to score points repeatedly without contravening the count restriction in baulk spaces. Also more fully anchor cannon, anchor shot, anchor stroke. Cf. anchor cannon. Now historical and rare.In quot. 1901: = anchor space n. at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke
hazard1674
carambole1775
carom1779
cannon1802
screw1825
sidestroke1834
following stroke1837
cannonade1844
five-stroke1847
follow1850
scratch1850
fluke1857
jenny1857
bank shot1859
angle shot1860
draw shot1860
six-stroke1861
run-through1862
spot1868
quill1869
dead-stroke1873
loser1873
push1873
push stroke1873
stab1873
stab screw1873
draw1881
force1881
plant1884
anchor cannon1893
massé1901
angle1902
cradle-cannon1907
pot1907
jump shot1909
carry-along1913
snooker1924
1893 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 3/2 ‘Will you play Ives for $10,000 with the “anchor” shot barred?’... ‘No, I will not. To take away the “anchor” would change the balk-line game altogether.’
1901 World of Billiards 25 Sept. 460/2 When the two object balls are at rest in any one of the eight spaces, one or both of the object balls must be driven out... The same condition applies to the anchor, 3½ by 7.
1904 S. A. Mussabini Mannock's Billiards i. 20 The greatest thing known to close-cannon play is the ‘anchor stroke’.
1907 Lloyd's Weekly News 14 Apr. 2/4 Tom Aiken, the Scottish champion, beat all billiard records with a break of 7,222, nearly all made by ‘anchor’ cannons.
1920 Daily Mail 6 Jan. 9/5 With cannons unrestricted and by means of the notorious ‘anchor’ stroke, he made a break of 499, 135 at the Burroughes's Hall.
2007 C. Everton Black Farce & Cue Ball Wizard i. 35 The anchor cannon and subsequently the pendulum cannon,..were banned, much to the disgust of Reece, a cannon artist and billiards purist.
7. Originally U.S. A business or organization regarded as a key presence in a particular area or development; spec. a large, prestigious department store or other retailer which attracts customers and other businesses to a shopping centre. Cf. Compounds 1c.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1960 Archit. Rec. Dec. 124/1 The plan is an open-ended T, with the large, four-story department store..as anchor..to serve as the main attraction, or chief traffic ‘puller’.
1970 Chain Store Age Feb. (Executive ed.) e13/2 There were many drawings prepared with various layouts for a two-, three-, and four-anchor center.
1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 48/5 The bank..acquired the Forest Fair mall..when the mall lost three of its big six anchors.
2017 Sentinel (Stoke) (Nexis) 13 June 6 The lack of an anchor can deter other retail outlets from taking a space.
8. Computing. A section or part of a hypertext document which is either the source or destination of a hyperlink; (also) a tag used in markup languages (esp. HTML) to mark the target and the source of a hyperlink (frequently attributive, in anchor element, anchor tag).
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1988 N. Yankelovich et al. in S. Ambron & K. Hooper Interactive Multimedia 61 Textual anchors are currently limited to insertion points and are represented internally by only one pointer.
1995 Online Access Sept. 51/2 There are two types of anchors: reference anchors and named anchors.
1996 Byte Oct. 72/2 You create drill-down hyperlinks to other pages by use of HTML anchor tags.
2001 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 20 Jan. 1 The site here offers a collection of source documents and official US military histories related to World War II. All are presented in HTML format, with hyperlinks wherever appropriate, and anchors to permit easy linking/citation of the volumes.

Phrases

P1. at (also †at an, †at the, †on) anchor: (of a ship, etc.) anchored, held by the anchor. Frequently in to lie at anchor (cf. lie v.1 11a). Also figurative.to ride at anchor, to ride on anchor: see ride v. Phrases 1a.at single anchor: see single adj. Compounds 2a. [Compare classical Latin ad ancoram.]
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [phrase] > at anchor
at (also at an, at the, on) anchorOE
at road1439
OE Beowulf (2008) 303 Seomode on sole [read sale] sidfæþmed scip, on ancre fæst.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 760 His Schip on Anker rod.
1426 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1426/23 Quhen he cumis in ony havin of Scotlande that he ryde on ankyr.
1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 203/1 To pruf þe said schip was at ane ankir.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxiiii. sig. Oiiiiv Manye shyppes, some vnder sayle,..some lienge at the anger.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 129 The enemies fleet riding easily at an anker.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. lii. 171 Whil'st I in vale of tears at anchour ride.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 4 June (1972) VII. 146 We found the Duch fleet at anchor.
a1690 S. Jeake Charters Cinque Ports (1728) Annot. 57 Terrage, or Groundage, nothing to be paid for their Ships lying a Ground, or at Anchor in any of the King's Havens or Harbours.
1791 P. Francis Let. 27 Apr. in Francis Lett. (1901) II. 386 I have removed into a very convenient house in St. James's Square, where I believe I am at anchor for life.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ci. 157 A little shallop lay At anchor in the flood. View more context for this quotation
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim i. 5 A coaster running in for shelter had crashed through a schooner at anchor.
1965 E. A. Pearson Lure of Sailing i. 16 Sailboats strain more at anchor than power-boats because they have more rigging aloft.
2004 E. Michael Beyond Pendowry Water xvii. 125 Lying at anchor was a dilapidated fishing boat.
P2. to come to (an) anchor: (of the crew of a ship) to let down the anchor; (of a ship) to come to rest by being moored using the anchor (cf. anchor v. 1b). Also figurative (cf. anchor v. 3).
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the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb (intransitive)]
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to take advisementa1393
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to come to (an) anchor?1473
deliber1485
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to set (up) one's rest1572
to set down one's rest1578
to make account1583
to fix the staff1584
to take a party1585
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to make up one's mind1859
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor
anchor?c1225
to come to (an) anchor?1473
to let go1530
to moor anchor1578
moor1627
to come to a killick1630
to drop anchor1634
to let fall1638
to let down1662
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 85 They knewe not the langage of them that enhabyted the porte where they cam to Ancre [Fr. ce port].
1540 Voy. Barbara to Brazil in Naval Misc. (1912) II. 40 And so fell withe the quoaste of Brasile, at a place called Potenyewe, and ther came to an ancker within half a myle of the shore.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. D iiijv But to come to anker..let them..become of one hart with vs.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 30 Come to an Anchor vnder the Ley of the weather shore, the Ley shore, nealed too, looke to your stops.
1685 W. Hedges Diary 6 Jan. (1887) I. 175 We..came to an anchor..on ye Westwardmost Brace.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 7 We run boldly into the Bay, and came to an Anchor in that which they call the Bite, or little Bay.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 156 All the ships had come to an anchor.
1843 Bentley's Misc. Feb. 206 A signal was made for us to come to anchor.
1898 Windsor Mag. 8 410/2 We had scarcely come to an anchor before the vessel was surrounded by small boats.
1935 Pop. Mech. May 677/1 They are taught the method of coming to anchor, how hatches are raised, and the care of cargo gear and deck machinery.
1995 D. M. O. Miller Wreck of Isabella ix. 68 When they managed to come to anchor the wind increased to a full gale.
P3. to clear (away) the anchor (and variants): to free the anchor from any ropes, cables, etc., impeding it whilst it is being raised or lowered, or when the ship is anchored. Also used as a command.
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1641 T. Killigrew Prisoners i. iv. in Prisoners & Claracilla sig. C6 Mates cleare an Anchor to drop e're she strikes.
1747 A. Campbell Sequel Bulkeley & Cummins's Voy. South-seas i. 13 The Captain order'd to let go the Anchor, but the Bite of the Cable being over the Cat-head, we could not clear the anchor till it was too late.
1843 Colburn's United Service Mag. Oct. 255 Let go the halyards, clear away the anchor, over with it there.
1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) i. 27 Older seamen, no longer agile enough to work aloft..dealt with the vital and tricky work of clearing away the anchors to let go, and catting and fishing them when unmooring.
2001 Morning Star (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 17 Aug. b1 They were doing free dives... He went down for one last dive of the day to clear the anchor.
P4. anchors aweigh (also anchors away): used predicatively or as an exclamation to indicate the beginning of a voyage or (by extension) any activity, event, enterprise, etc.The development of the phrase is influenced by the U.S. Navy song of the same name (see quot. 1906). The song's original lyrics use the established phrase anchor's aweigh (cf., e.g., quot. 1838 at aweigh adv. 1), but variation between this form and anchors aweigh is found from the first sheet music publication, where the cover title is in the latter form and the title heading the song itself in the former.
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1906 C. A. Zimmerman & A. H. Miles Anchors Aweigh (sheet music) 5 Roll up the score Navy Anchor's Aweigh Sail Navy down the field And Sink the Army, Sink the Army Grey!]
1914 W. O. Stevens Story of Our Navy viii. 101 After the work on the Essex was finished, it was ‘anchors aweigh’, with bows pointing again toward Valparaiso.
1930 Anniston (Alabama) Star 28 May 7/5 Anchors aweigh! Good-bye to sweltering heat and the things of every day. We are Northward bound along the Cool Green Road to Vacation-land.
2015 @Manny_the_Lion 22 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) All I gotta do is make it through one more semester and then it's anchors away my boys! Anchors away!
P5. to cast anchor: see cast v. 6a. to drag the anchor: see drag v. 1c. to drop anchor: see drop v. 13b. to slip the anchor: see slip v.1 28a. to weigh anchor: see weigh v.1 5a. the anchor comes home: see home adv. 5a.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier.
a. In sense 1, as anchor fluke, anchormaster, anchor shank, etc.
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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 106 Prora, ancersetl uel forscip.
lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 22 Swa rihte swa swa scipes ancerstreng byð aþenæd on gerihte fram þam scype to þam ancræ.
1451 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Royal) (1985) 123 Anker-hokes.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ancoraio, an anchor master or an anchor maker.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 21 A Horse is a rope made fast to the fore mast shrouds, and the Spretsaile sheats, to keepe those sheats cleare of the anchor flookes.
1672 J. Narborough Jrnl. 18 June in R. C. Anderson Jrnls. & Narr. Third Dutch War (1946) 108 His Royal Highness received them with a bountiful entertainment, having..the Anchor standard at the fore-topmast head.
1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 24 The Areas of the Anchor Shanks are near as 3 to 1.
1857 J. O. Butler Beecroft's Compan. Iron Trade (ed. 4) 250 Anchor Palms, 8 to 28 inches in width.
1891 J. W. Collins Rep. Constr. & Equipm. Schooner Grampus in Rep. U.S. Commissioner Fish & Fisheries for 1887 (App. 5) 453 There are galvanized iron guards for the anchor bills to rest upon.
1917 Motor Boating Mar. 24/1 Untie the anchor line and remove it from the ring, tying it securely to the anchor crown where the shank and fluke arms join.
1935 J. Lindsay Runaway 151 In a locker he found a spare anchor-hawser.
1987 W. Hagelund Whalers no More i. 9 We greased and oiled the easing gear, the steering gear, and the anchor gear.
2002 J. C. Payne Motorboat Electr. & Electronics Man. ix. 223 Do not continue to load the anchor windlass to stall conditions without stopping every few minutes.
b. Originally U.S. Sport (esp. Athletics and Swimming). Designating the final leg of a relay race, or a person who takes part in the final leg, as anchor leg, anchor runner, etc. Cf. sense 5b.Recorded earliest in anchorman n. 4.
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1907 Washington Post 10 Mar. (Sporting section) 1/2 Haskins..was the anchor man of Philadelphia's outfit.
1933 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 9 Mar. 7/1 Pat..ran the anchor leg on the winning relay.
1958 Observer 3 Aug. 16/1 M. Spence..held off Britain's J. E. Salisbury on the anchor stage to win by a long yard.
1961 Sunday Times 16 July 20/7 He must surely be our best prospect as an anchor runner for the relay against America next week.
1982 Ebony 70/2 When he was a mere fourth-grader, he ran the anchor leg for a 300-yard shuttle relay team in the Penn Relays.
2007 J. Rice & B. Curtis Go Long! (2008) 16 Typically, the fastest runner runs the last or anchor lap.
c. Originally U.S. Designating a business or organization regarded as a key presence in an area or development, esp. a large, prestigious department store or other retailer which attracts customers and other businesses to a shopping centre, as anchor store, anchor tenant, etc. Cf. sense 7.
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1939 Los Angeles Times 16 July v. 1 (advt.) New Income Building..—good anchor tenant—excellent investment.
1975 Business Week 8 Dec. 51/1 The big ‘anchor stores’ that acted as magnets for customers of suburban shopping centers—and often owned them.
1985 Times Reporter (Dover, Ohio) 29 Jan. f1/1 The J.C. Penney Co. store..moved from downtown Dover in 1977 to become the Plaza's anchor retailer.
2008 C. B. Harrington 101 Accessible Vac. 243 First stop on any Space Coast visit should be the Kennedy Space Center, the anchor attraction of the area.
d. Of, relating to, or engaged in the presentation and coordination of a live television or radio programme; as anchor desk, anchor role, etc. Cf. sense 5c.Recorded earliest in anchorman n. 5.See also anchorpeople n. at Compounds 2, anchorperson n. at Compounds 2, anchorwoman n. 3.
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1952 Billboard 19 July 17/3 CBS chief, Sig Mickelson, took a gamble in putting a comparative unknown, Walter Cronkite, into the key anchor position as commentator for the running convention story.
1960 Sponsor 18 July 30/2 The Huntley-Brinkley comments on NBC were considerably more witty and pungent than the anchor work of Walter Cronkite and John Daly on the other networks.
1973 Broadcasting 30 July 62/1 (advt.) Widely known and respected TV newsman in the west's fastest growing market looking for news director/anchor role.
1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) x. 115 Rich, this is Dionna McGee at the anchor desk.
2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Feb. 19/1 In this sprawling celebration of Kennedyiana, there was no shortage of simulated rifle shots and sonorous anchor reflections on the gravity of it all.
e. Association Football. Of, relating to, or designating a defensive midfield player who plays in a position just in front of the team's defence, breaking up the opposing team's attacks and winning back possession of the ball, as anchor position, anchor role, etc. Cf. sense 5d.Recorded earliest in anchorman n. 6.
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1974 Daily Mail 11 May 34/4 I'm playing him [sc. Emlyn Hughes] in his best position, as the anchor man in midfield.
1982 Times 5 July 15/1 In this game Genghini played the anchor role, lying deep and releasing long passes to Soler and Rocheteau on the wings.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 13 Oct. 32 Charlton is looking to Keane, the versatile Nottingham Forest player, to play in the anchor position just in front of the back four.
2003 Aberdeen Evening Press (Nexis) 10 Mar. 44 When you play a five man midfield, Darren is the ideal anchor player.
2017 H. Powell Hope viii. 91 An anchor midfielder who'll help shield the defence and be a first point of moving the ball forward from her centre-backs.
C2.
anchor baby n. originally and chiefly North American (usually considered offensive) a child born to an immigrant mother living illegally in the United States, and thus qualifying for legal citizenship under U.S. law, especially when considered as a means of securing citizenship or legal residency for other family members; cf. anchor child n.
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1993 Immigration & Naturalization Service's Gen. Operations & Budget: Hearing before Subcomm. Internat. Law, Immigration, & Refugees Comm. (U.S. House of Representatives, 102nd Congr., 2nd Sess.) 154 TV images of fraud at airports, anchor babies along the U.S. Mexico border, and ‘banzai runs’ at U.S. ports of entry are all having their impact on public opinion.
2007 E. J. Erler in E. J. Erler et al. Founders on Citizenship & Immigration ii. 26 The populations of entire villages in Mexico have been transplanted to the United States almost intact, the ‘chain-migration’ having begun with one anchor baby.
2014 C. A. Gallagher & C. D. Lippard Race & Racism in U.S. I. 51/1 Certain state lawmakers..have spurred the creation of state laws looking to..reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment and close..a loophole..encouraging the proliferation of anchor babies.
† anchor baulkline n. Billiards Obsolete any of a set of lines drawn on a billiard table around each of the points where a baulkline touches the rail, forming eight small boxes in which scoring is restricted, preventing the repeated use of the anchor cannon; cf. sense 6, anchor space n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > lines
baulk-line1839
string1857
stringing-line1873
string-line1897
anchor baulkline1910
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 939/1 The ‘anchor baulk-lines’ form a tiny compartment, 6 in. by 3, and are drawn at the end of a baulk-line where it touches the rail and so divides the compartment into two squares.
anchor bolt n. a metal bolt used to secure structural components, esp. when fastening steel to stone or concrete, typically having a broad head, a flanged shaft, or an expanding sleeve, or fixed by an adhesive resin.
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wrain-bolt1750
wraining-bolt1769
toggle-bolt1794
strap-bolt1795
wring-bolt1815
through-bolt1821
truss-bolt1825
slip-stopper1831
stud bolt1838
anchor bolt1839
king rod1843
joint bolt1844
spade-bolt1850
shackle-bolt1852
roof bolt1853
set-stud1855
coach bolt1869
truss-rod1873
fox-bolt1874
garnish-bolt1874
fang-bolt1876
stud1878
U bolta1884
rock bolt1887
hook bolt1899
tower bolt1911
explosive bolt1948
1839 D. Burr in Rep. Senate & House Representatives State Illinois 292 The upper end of the quoin post will be supported by an iron collar, secured by anchor bolts.
1957 Gloss. Terms for Stone used in Building (B.S.I.) 21 Anchor bolt, a T-shaped bolt for attaching fascia and similar stones to a supporting R.S.J.
2011 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 24 July (Herald-Times ed.) e3 (caption) Building codes may mandate metal reinforcing straps known as hurricane clips on roof rafters and anchor bolts for stability in high winds.
anchor cable n. (a) a cable or rope attached to an anchor, by which the anchor is lowered or raised from a ship, airship, etc.; a length or type of cable suitable for this; (b) a cable used as an anchor or that holds something in place.
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1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Camelus bactriana Some take it in the masculine gender for an ancre cable.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. 444 Scarce were they all embarked, when some of them..plucked up anchors, others cut the anchor cables, for that nothing should stay them.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 169 Being dubious of the Anchor Cable sweeping and ranging the Ground, I was willing to see whether it was rubbed, chafed, or stranded any where.
1835 Western Monthly Mag. May 308 The only way..was to cut away the anchor cable. This I did; and..ascended to an altitude as great as I had previously attained.
1887 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 88 467 The anchor-cables, on the right bank of the St. Christophe suspension bridge, had been so reduced from the oxidation of the lower portions of the wires,..that they needed renewing.
1972 Gloss. 1/1 in Logging & Sawmill Operation (U.S. Dept. Army Techn. Man. TM 5-342) Aug. Anchor cable, a short line used to tie down a yarder to prevent tipping.
1990 Lifeboat Spring 231/1 Her anchor cables were leading under the vessel and her cargo of cars was loose on deck.
2016 Central Western Daily (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 7 A broken cable has disabled Burrendong Dam's $3.4 million Cold Water Pollution Curtain... One of eight anchor cables used to hold the structure in place broke.
anchor chain n. (a) a chain attached to an anchor, by which the anchor is lowered or raised from a ship, airship, etc.; a length or type of chain suitable for this; (b) a chain used as an anchor or that holds something in place.In sense (a), sometimes referring to a short length of chain attached at one end to the anchor and at the other to a rope, for ease of handling (the chain being better able to withstand friction against sharp obstacles on the sea bed).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > formed of chain
anchor chain1651
chain-cable1830
1651 tr. Virgil in tr. P. Ramus Dialectica i. vii, in Compend. Art of Logick & Rhetorick in Eng. Tongue 14 Vnder which rock a den's made very fleet, Wherein's rich living stones and waters sweet, Houses for Nymphs and chains for ships there laid, Which would not by the Anchor chains be staid.
1775 Public Advertiser 26 June The Anchor of the City Navigation-barge got foul of the Anchor-chain of a Sailing-boat, but no Damage ensued.
1819 New Monthly Mag. Dec. 545/1 The great hammer employed for making anchors and anchor-chains is particularly worthy of notice.
1856 Encycl. Brit. XII. 590/1 The ends of the cables [of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge] are attached to cast-iron shoes, in each of which is inserted a wrought-iron pin which forms the connection with the anchor chains. These anchor chains are each imbedded in a solid shaft of masonry.
1878 Specif. & Drawings Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 23 July 1019/2 The stump-chain being secured around a stump, root, or the like, the anchor-chain is secured to any convenient fixed structure in reach, such as a tree, rock, &c.
1919 Music Trades 12 July 5/1 When the anchor chains of the British dirigible R-34 are lifted in preparation for the return trip to England there will be placed on board..a new Columbia Gramophone and..records.
1989 Cruising World June 56/1 (heading) For strength and convenience, join your nylon rode to your anchor chain with a simple splice.
2018 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 3 Wellington City Council has warned trying to flip over the diving pontoon in Oriental Bay can be dangerous. ‘Imagine hundreds of kilograms of platform with an anchor chain and handrail toppling down on you.’
anchor child n. originally and chiefly North American a child sent by his or her family to live in a foreign country in order to qualify for citizenship or legal residency there, as a means of securing citizenship or legal residency for other family members; (in later use also) = anchor baby n.
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1986 Thailand Trip Rep. (Minnesota: Governor's State Advisory Council for Refugees) 25 Others are ‘anchor children’, sent out of Vietnam by their parents in hopes that they will survive the ocean journey, be eligible for resettlement as unaccompanied minors, and serve as anchors to draw the rest of the family out.
2005 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Electronic ed.) 28 Dec. 1 a Undocumented immigrants use ‘that anchor baby to then stave off deportation, apply for welfare and then eventually pull more relatives legally into the United States via the relationship to the anchor child’.
2016 Sunday Times (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. 32 Many of the new arrivals are called anchor children, dispatched by parents from war-torn or impoverished countries in the hope that they will get asylum and bring in the rest of the family.
anchor chock n. Nautical †(a) a piece of wood inserted into an anchor stock to repair a defect (obsolete); (b) a block of wood, metal, or other material on which the anchor rests when not in use (frequently in plural).
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1821 J. Fincham Introd. Outl. Pract. Ship-Building 195 Anchor Chock, a chock bolted upon the gunwale abaft the fore drift, for the fluke of the sheet and spare anchor to rest upon, when these anchors are stowed.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Anchor-chocks, pieces indented into a wooden anchor-stock where it has become worn or defective in the way of the shank; also pieces of wood or iron on which an anchor rests when it is stowed.
1906 Internat. Marine Engin. June 230 Bow and anchor chocks are also fitted to this deck.
2010 R. D. Taylor Mingming ii. ix. 161 It has all the features of a fore deck: a bow roller, a chain-pipe, a mooring cleat and anchor chocks bearing a well-lashed anchor.
anchor escapement n. (in pendulum clocks) an escapement in which the pallets alternately checking the motion of the escape wheel are situated at either end of a curved or angled bar in the same plane as the wheel.Distinguished from the earlier verge escapement.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack1498
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Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
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1798 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. May 54 The dead beat escapement of Graham, and the horizontal escapement, both appear to be improvements of the common anchor escapement.
1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. II. at Clock Dr. Hooke also claimed the invention of the anchor escapement, which he asserted that he exhibited to the Royal Society in a clock of his construction in 1666.
1948 A. L. Rawlings Sci. Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) v. 82 The anchor escapement in one of its two main forms is now used in most clocks. The commonest form is the recoil escapement, as found in all grandfather clocks.
2011 G. L. Baker Seven Tales Pendulum ii. 77 In contrast to the verge and crown wheel, the anchor escapement can accommodate quite small pendulum movements.
anchor frost n. chiefly English regional and U.S. ice formed below the surface of a body of water, esp. at the bottom of a stream or river, or on the seabed; cf. anchor ice n.
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anchor frost1793
1793 Monthly Rev. Oct. 238 I remember the case being mentioned in the northern States of America, under the denomination of an anchor-frost, from its freezing from the bottom upward.
1867 G. J. Whyte-Melville in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 588 Bright enough to thaw an anchor-frost on the mill-wheel.
1913 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 11 Feb. 9/6 The dreaded ‘anchor frost’ that works destruction to all the young seed [i.e. young oysters] is feared.
1994 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 21 Oct. 1 c Oysters can be killed by ice or anchor frost, which freezes the zone that dries between tides.
† anchor-gable n. Obsolete rare an anchor cable; cf. gable n.2 1.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable
anchor ropeOE
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1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. ii. 4 Creeping on all foure among the anchor-gables [L. per ancoralia].
anchor ground n. ground, or a place, suitable for, or used for, anchoring a vessel. [Apparently originally after Dutch ankergrond (c1595 in the passage translated in quot. 1598).]
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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. xx. 342/1 When you are by the coast of Champa, then you shal runne East Northeast: within two or three miles at the furthest it is altogether faire and good anker ground.
1684 P. Ayres Voy. & Adventures Capt. B. Sharp 68 Here is a Harbour that lyes in South about the Point, good Anchor Ground, in 15. Fathom Water.
1776 N. Greene Let. 7 Dec. in G. Washington Papers (1997) Revolutionary War Ser. VII. 269 The bottom of the River should be examind and see if the Boats can be Anchord in the ferry way—if there is no Anchor ground the bridge must be thrown over below.
1998 China Chem. Reporter (Nexis) 30 June Oil tankers above 150 000 tons can also berth after unloading at the anchor ground.
anchor hoop n. †(a) Nautical an iron hoop used to attach the stock to the shank of the anchor (obsolete); (b) a hoop attached to the ground, a wall, etc., and used to secure something in place (rare).
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1790 E. Riou Jrnl. 3 Feb. in Last Voy. of Guardian (1990) 95 As we could find only one anchor hoop in the store room for the head, one hand was employed in getting the hoops of the sheet anchor.
1793 R. H. Gower Treat. Theory & Pract. Seamanship xii. 95 A top-mast inverted, which forms the main piece of the rudder, its heel becoming the head, which is so secured by the anchor hoops..that the fid-hole may be increased to receive a tiller.
1823 M. Martin Compend. Pract. Stating Averages 33 Six anchor hoops.
2004 Sussex Express (Nexis) 7 Nov. Few traces remain on site—stretches of rails from sliding doors of the hangars, metal fittings possibly anchor hoops where aircraft were tied down.
anchor ice n. ice formed at the bottom of a body of water, esp. a lake or river; = ground-ice n. 1.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > at bottom of lake, river, etc.
ground-ice1694
anchor ice1815
bottom ice1816
stock-frost1856
stock-ice1879
frazil1888
1815 T. Burr Let. 26 Feb. in Niles' Weekly Reg. 18 Nov. 201/1 On the same day the anchor-ice began to run a little.
1905 J. W. Thurso Mod. Turbine Pract. ix. 191 The formation of anchor-ice is caused by the radiation of heat from the river or lake bottom into space.
2012 R. Ettema & E. W. Kempema in M. Church et al. Gravel-bed Rivers xxxvii. 531/1 The majority of anchor ice usually remains attached to the bed throughout the night.
anchor light n. a light displayed at night on a ship (in the rigging or other prominent position) to indicate that the ship is anchored (cf. anchor ball n. 2).
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1848 Dundee Courier 27 Dec. The Bold Buccleuch..sunk the barque William,..anchored right in the mid channel, off Grimsby... The barque had no anchor light exhibited.
1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 174 We..climb into the dinghy to row in for dinner, first rigging the anchor light on our headstay to guide us home after dark.
2006 G. O. Jones & D. Kelley Chapman: Pract. Boat Handling vi. 66 At night turn on the anchor light, called a white 360, a constant white light that is visible from anywhere around the boat.
anchor line n. a cable, rope, etc., attached to or serving as an anchor (in senses 1 and 3); also (and in earliest use) figurative. [Compare Middle High German ankerlīne.]
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or security > that which gives security
anchoreOE
tower13..
strengthc1425
rock1526
anchorage1596
assurer1607
anchor line1614
aventinea1625
anchorage ground1758
anchorman1895
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable
anchor ropeOE
coble?a1400
cablec1400
anchor tow1602
anchor-gable1609
rode1612
anchor line1614
roding1896
1614 J. Norden Labyrinth Mans Life sig. G4v Vaine hope..Feedes fainting heart with helples vanities Who ties his hope on humane anker-line.
1785 L. A. Sage Let. to Female Friend (ed. 2) 25 As we still descended rapidly, he kept the ballast in one hand and the anchor line in the other.
1857 D. P. Thompson Gaut Gurley vi. 73 Throw your anchor into the stern of my canoe, and fall in behind. There; now keep the anchor-line slack between us, if you can.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 13/3 The first thread spun [by a spider] is secured to the ground as an anchor-line.
1978 Motor Boating Sept. 93/2 Since the anchor line isn't stowed in a musty locker, it remains mildew-free.
2018 C. Aubeny Geomechanics of Marine Anchors v. 161 Soil resistance on the anchor line can contribute to overall anchor pullout capacity.
anchor lining n. Nautical (now chiefly historical) a set of wooden boards, metal plates, or other coverings used to protect the side of a ship from damage by the anchor as it is raised or lowered; = bill-board n. at bill n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > specific protective timbers along side
anchor lining1805
bill-boardc1860
rubbing strake1874
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 87 Bolsters for the anchor lining, solid pieces of oak, bolted to the ship's side, at the fore part of the fore chains, on which the stantions are fixed that receive the anchor lining.
1862 Standard 28 Apr. 3/2 Defence, 18, iron screw ram ship,..will go out of dock to-day, iron plates having been affixed to her sides, forming an anchor lining.
1995 K. Julier New Period Ship Handbk. II. iv. 39/1 With the last of the planking in place, the wales and anchor lining were given an initial coat of paint and the figurehead fixed in position.
anchor maker n. a person who manufactures anchors.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > one in charge of anchor
anchormanOE
anchor maker1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ancoraio, an anchor master or an anchor maker.
1737 London Evening-Post 11 June The following substantial Traders were burnt out, viz. Mr. Mason, an Anchor-Maker [etc.].
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 95 Different anchor-makers have their respective rules of proportion.
1997 T. S. Whitman Price of Freedom (2000) iii. 71 Metal fabricators, such as forge and furnace hands, blacksmiths, anchor makers, nailers, [etc.].
anchorpeople n. originally and chiefly North American people who present and coordinate a live television or radio programme (see sense 5c).
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1973 Bay State Banner (Boston) 8 Feb. 12/3 On-the-air anchor people Al Williams and Natalie Christian give commentary from the studio.
1995 P. Z. Pilzer God wants you to be Rich (1997) 41 Most news directors and aspiring anchorpeople seem to know that bad news for the economy means good news for their nightly ratings and for their careers.
2005 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 11 Dec. 3 The..plan for luring young people to TV news involves the hiring of younger-looking anchorpeople.
anchorperson n. a person who presents and coordinates a live television or radio programme; = sense 5c.Used as a gender-neutral replacement for anchorman n. 5.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
1971 Washington Post 20 Dec. c1/1 It's the new show called ‘Woman!’ and, indeed, all the program's staff from Sherrye Henry, the anchor person, on out are women.
1982 Amer. Banker 31 Mar. 11/4 Individual interviews..will include questions from different anchorpersons.
2005 P. O. Keirstead Computers in Broadcast & Cable Newsrooms vii. 124 This is what an anchorperson sees when facing the prompter-equipped camera.
anchor plate n. a substantial piece of metal or other material to which something (e.g. a cable of a suspension bridge, a tie rod in a brick or stone building) is secured to keep it in place.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting plate
anchor plate1831
flitch1888
1831 Canada Canal Communication: Copies Corr. 69 in Parl. Papers 1830–1 (H.C. 135) IX. 17 Machinery for raising sluices, anchor-plates, gudgeons, racks, &c.
1883 W. Conant in Harper's Mag. 932/1 At the bottom..are imbedded four massive anchor-plates of cast iron, one for each of the cables.
1958 F. S. Merritt Building Constr. Handbk. v. 56 After the concrete has attained sufficient strength, the steel is secured to the anchor plates and the jacks are removed.
2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder viii. 162 Special anchor plates are used which allow it to be fixed to the ground floor structure rather than the wall substructure.
anchor point n. †(a) the tip of the fluke of an anchor (= bill n.2 4) (obsolete rare); (b) a point by which something is held securely or fastened; (c) figurative a fact, idea, element, etc., which provides stability, security, or confidence; a reference point.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > fluke > point of
bill1769
peak1793
peac1860
anchor point1877
1877 W. N. Fisher U.S. Patent 193,236 All the anchor-points formed in one die will be of uniform size and length.
1887 Sci. Amer. 28 May 346/2 The brace wires are connected to form a chain extending between anchor points.
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 55 98 Only a few suggested that the red syllable served as an anchor point in their learning.
1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 11 The work of Lazarsfeld and Threlens..and that of Caplow and McGee..provide useful anchor-points.
1990 Pract. Householder Apr. 14/2 The profiles have anchor points at intervals for inserting metal wall ties to secure the structure.
2015 Guardian 10 Oct. (Do Something section) 13/2 All that separates me from that abyss is a long, flat strip of webbing an inch wide, slung between two anchor points.
anchor relative n. originally and chiefly North American a legally recognized resident of a country who acts as a sponsor for a family member who wants to emigrate to his or her relative's country.
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1979 Minneapolis Tribune 22 Apr. b10/2 About 8,000 Hmong have immigrated to the United States... As many as 20,000 more are expected to flee from Laos. Under the tightly defined American program, only those with ‘anchor’ relatives in America—such as parents, children and single siblings—qualify for resettlement.
1983 in Reauthorization Refugee Act 1980: Hearings before Subcomm. Immigration & Refugee Policy of Comm. on Judiciary (U.S. Senate, 98th Congr., 1st Sess.) (1984) App. 472 In the case of family reunifications, the anchor relative signs an ‘Anchor Relative Assistance Form’ stating what services and resources he is willing and able to provide.
2017 Maclean's Aug. 28/2 Mavis Otuteye, a Ghanaian national who wanted to visit her newborn Canadian granddaughter,..was..found dead of probable hypothermia about a kilometre from the border. With that infant as an anchor relative, she likely could have crossed legally to claim asylum in Fort Erie.
anchor ring n. (a) a large metal ring to which a cable may be fastened; (b) Geometry a torus (torus n. 4) that resembles a ring, formed by the revolution of a circle about a line that lies in the same plane. [With sense (a) compare Dutch ankerring (1681) and Old Icelandic akkerishringr.]
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > solid of revolution > formed from curve > torus
anchor ring1783
annulus1802
tore1867
torus1870
1671 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper et al. Atlas Chinensis 612 They have no Anchor-stocks nor Rings [Du. gene ringen], but through the end where our Anchor-stock is made fast, runs a Rope.]
1783 H. Cort Brit. Patent 1351 (1856) 4 For uses that are to be made round, such as anchor rings and the like, I work them at an anvil with a semicircular groove.
1863 P. Frost & J. Wolstenholme Treat. Solid Geom. xiv. 213 An anchor ring, supposed to be generated by the revolution of a circle about an axis in its plane not intersecting the circle.
2009 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 465 3584 Consider a torus, also known as an anchor ring, of inner radius R1 and outer radius R2.
2011 Cape Times (Nexis) 8 Sept. 8 The payload capacity is 800 kg, and six anchor rings are provided in the load area for securing heavy goods in place.
anchor root n. a root of a plant that serves primarily to stabilize the plant and hold it in place.
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1856 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 1 Nov. 8/5 Indiscriminate deep-ploughing..[engenders] all sorts of diseases amongst the crops, drawn up by the spongioles from the poisonous depths below, into which only the anchor roots of the crop ought to penetrate for water.
1918 Sci. Amer. 9 Nov. 373 (caption) Normally the cactus has a single anchor-root, with the balance of the root structure within three inches of the surface.
2018 C. J. C. Goodin Smartee Plants ix. 206 Plants may be alive but will be floppy in the pot if the anchor roots begin to rot.
anchor rope n. (a) a rope attached to an anchor, by which the anchor is lowered or raised from a ship, airship, etc.; a length or type of rope suitable for this (also figurative); (b) a rope used as an anchor or that holds something in place.In sense (a), the rope is sometimes fitted to a short length of chain attached to the anchor, the chain being better able to withstand friction against sharp obstacles on the sea bed, but the rope generally being easier to handle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable
anchor ropeOE
coble?a1400
cablec1400
anchor tow1602
anchor-gable1609
rode1612
anchor line1614
roding1896
OE Whale 14 Wægliþende..gehydað heahstefn scipu to þam unlonde oncyrrapum, setlaþ sæmearas sundes æt ende.
1594 W. Percy Sonnets to Fairest Coelia ix. sig. Biij Then whilst I touch the port of my desires, A storme of hate doth burst mine anchor ropes.
1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling i. 8 By setting vp sayles against the winde, or by casting anchor, and by being sure before-hand that the anchor rope will hold, and not slacke.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 135 They were brought to publick Punishment, according to the Custom of the Sea: Which was to receive from every Person of the Ship 90 Blows on the Breech, with an Anchor Rope.
1850 J. Wise Syst. Aeronaut. ii. xxi. 250 A terrible crash indicated the balloon was off—having broken the anchor rope.
1873 U.S. Patent 144,436 in Specif. & Drawings Patents (1874) Nov. 233/1 Balloon Advertising... The lower-end of the anchor-rope is secured to a windlass, for the purpose of letting the balloon up and winding it down when desired, which becomes necessary to do in high winds and stormy weather.
1917 Lyceum Dec. 29/3 There is one anchor rope, sometimes two, between the center poles. These ropes stop all up and down motion of the tent.
1951 Motor Boating May 105/1 A nylon anchor rope is very pleasant to handle and is quite ideal for the No. 2 anchor.
2018 Penarth Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. A simple service call turned into a major challenge.., as it became apparent that the..vessel's anchor rope had wrapped around its propeller shaft, with the chain and anchor lying on the seabed.
anchor shackle n. Nautical a shackle used to attach the anchor of a vessel to the cable or chain.
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1833 New-Orleans Commerc. Bull. 24 Aug. (advt.) 1 box anchor shackles, 4 boxes hooks and thimbles.
1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ (1898) v. 234 He arranged the weights carefully at the feet: two holystones, an old anchor-shackle without its pin, [etc.].
2005 S. Colgate & D. Colgate Fast Track to Cruising xiii. 153 Use seizing wire to keep the pin in the anchor shackle from backing out.
anchor-shaped adj. shaped like an anchor.
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1811 Retrospect Philos., Mech., Chem. & Agric. Discov. 7 98 The anchor-shaped arch is then turned over, and the opposite end strikes among the filings in the other hollow.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 238 Small, anchor-shaped calcareous plates.
2011 Day (New London, Connecticut) (Nexis) 1 Aug. He..lay on the water an anchor-shaped wreath covered with flowers.
anchorsmith n. now chiefly historical a person who makes or manufactures anchors for ships.Attested earliest as a surname. [Compare Middle Low German ankersmit.]
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of other specific finished articles
anchorsmith1296
paliser1315
sheather1379
buckler-maker1415
barrow-maker1468
chess-maker1481
belt maker1483
leg-makera1500
reel-makera1500
card maker1511
lattice-maker1550
pale cleaver1578
bead-maker1580
boss-maker1580
balloonier1598
bilbo-smith1632
block-makera1687
pen-makera1703
pipe-maker1766
platemaker1772
stickman1786
safe maker?1789
matchmaker1833
chipmaker1836
labelmaker1844
bandagist1859
hurdler1874
moon cutter1883
tie-maker1901
1296 Grant of Land, King's Lynn (Norfolk Rec. Office: KL/C 50/323) Alano le Ankersmith.
1355 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1901) 14 300 Benedictus Ankersmith.
1610 in F. G. Emmison Wills at Chelmsford (1958) (modernized text) I. 288 Moris, John, anchor smith, Harwich.
1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxxiii. 182 The File-Maker..need not have quite so much Strength as an Anchor-Smith.
1840 London Tee-total Mag. Oct. 329/1 We have men by hundreds and thousands, in the most laborious employment; such as gas-stokers, anchor smiths, iron-founders, [etc.].
2000 Jrnl. Early Republic 20 562 Nathaniel Greene, the Rhode Island-born anchorsmith..stands second only to George Washington as the military mastermind of the War for Independence.
anchor space n. Billiards any of eight boxes marked on the table at the intersection of the rail and a baulkline, in which two object balls are considered in baulk even when on either side of a baulkline (thus preventing the repeated use of the anchor cannon; cf. sense 6).In quot. 1894: a space either side of the baulkline where the anchor cannon is possible.
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1894 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 14 Jan. 8/1 Jake got the balls in his favorite position along the line and began to knock off the billiards in rapid order. He coddled the balls up the line and across to the anchor space again.]
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 939/1 The ‘anchor baulk-lines’ form a tiny compartment, 6 in. by 3, and are drawn at the end of a baulk-line where it touches the rail and so divides the compartment into two squares. Only one shot is allowed in this ‘anchor-space’, unless a ball be driven out of it.
2002 M. I. Shamos New Illustr. Encycl. Billiards‎ (new ed.) 8/2 The anchor space is twice as large as the 3½ x 7-inch Parker's Box.
anchor tow n. originally Scottish (now rare) an anchor cable. [Compare Dutch ankertouw (1623 as anckertou), Middle Low German ankertou, ankertouwe, German Ankertau (1628), Swedish ankartåg (1621).]
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable
anchor ropeOE
coble?a1400
cablec1400
anchor tow1602
anchor-gable1609
rode1612
anchor line1614
roding1896
1602 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 144 The anker tow that is slippit..salbe payit be bayth the schipis.
1877 H. W. Longfellow Dutch Picture in Atlantic Feb. 177 A ship that..tugs at her anchor-tow.
1997 Offshore (Nexis) Aug. 87 Bergs were drilled to anchor tows, they were blown up, prop-washed, bumped and pushed.
anchor watch n. the members of a ship's crew assigned to keep watch while the ship lies at anchor; the duty of keeping watch during this time.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors keeping anchor watch
anchor watch1780
1780 Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal (rev. ed.) II. 721/2 The anchor watch, la garde.
1803 in D. Knox Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (1941) III. 207 Mustered the Larboard Watch as an anchor Watch.
1945 D. Bolster Roll on my Twelve 59 It'll be a perfect curse if we have a gale tonight. At best it means doubling the anchor watch; but..we may have to go out if it really blows.
2001 Nat. New Eng. May 69/1 Those standing anchor-watch would likely see fog roll back in close to shore as the island cooled off and moisture condensed out again.

Derivatives

ˈanchor-like adj.
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1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvi. xxi. 608 The anker-like or beake-like processe [L. ancyroidem seu coracoidem processum, Fr. apophyse Ancyroïde]..hinder this joynt from slipping inwards.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 195 The anchor-like piece of iron by which the main tackle blocks are hung.
1899 C. MacMillan Minnesota Plant Life xi. 80 Peculiar anchor-like appendages which grow out from the surface.
1998 Cincinnati Aug. 78/2 This extensive procedure..can leave large, anchor-like scars.
ˈanchorwise adv. now rare in a manner resembling or characteristic of an anchor.
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1802 L. Hanson Accurate Hist. Acct. Orders of Knighthood Europe II. xxi. 77 The collar of the Order, at first was composed of elephants, and crosses, formed anchor-wise.
1905 Western Field Sept. 689/2 The famous hinged casting hook..guaranteed to spread, anchorwise, into a big double hook at the first attempt to disgorge it.
1939 R. Pound Turn left for England ii. 37 He said, hanging on to me with words which he threw out anchor-wise each time I made a movement to go, that Petworth House is ‘crammed with stuff’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

anchorn.2

Brit. /ˈaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈæŋkər/
Forms: early Old English aancor- (in compounds), early Old English aancora, Old English acra (transmission error), Old English acran (transmission error, dative), Old English ancera (rare), Old English ancr- (inflected form, rare), Old English ancra, Old English oncor- (in compounds), Old English oncrę (Northumbrian), Old English (chiefly in compounds)–early Middle English ancer, late Old English anker- (in compounds), Middle English anchar, Middle English anger, Middle English ankir, Middle English ankre, Middle English ankyr, Middle English auncre, Middle English hanker, Middle English–1500s ancre, Middle English–1600s anker, Middle English–1600s 1800s– anchor, 1500s ancher, 1500s ankour, 1500s aunker, 1500s aunkyre, 1500s–1600s ancker, Old English–Middle English 1600s ancor; also Scottish pre-1700 anker, pre-1700 ankir, pre-1700 hanker.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin anachoreta.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin anachoreta, anachorita anchorite n., either with significant shortening of the word within Old English or via an unattested Early Irish form (see notes). Compare ( < English) Anglo-Norman ancre (13th cent. in the passage corresponding to quot. ?c1225, or earlier), Welsh ancr (12th cent.), Old Cornish ancar . Compare also the foreign-language forms cited at anchorite n.Possible Irish intermediary. A Latin word borrowed into Irish at an early date would have been shortened considerably by regular sound changes and may have been further affected by analogical changes; such a form is probably reflected in Early Irish ancharae (with subsequent folk-etymological alteration after carae friend). Compare post-classical Latin anchorita , anchoreta (chiefly in Irish sources: see anchorite n.). Gender. In Middle English until the 14th cent. the word is regularly used to denote both men and women, without any gender distinction as implied later in anchoress n. In Old English the word usually inflects as a weak masculine (ancra ), rarely as a strong masculine (ancor ). Use of the term with reference to women is rare for historical reasons, but an early instance is probably shown by the variant reading (genitive plural) in the Winteney manuscript in quot. OE1, the context of which refers to nuns. The Old English compound ancorlif anchoritic life ( < anchor n.2 + life n.) is used once with reference to a female anchorite:OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xvi. 283 Heo [sc. Herundo]..gelædde hi sylfe in ancorlif in þam westenum [L. uitam heremiticam duxisse ferebatur]. Apparent early association with the numeral ‘one’. In Old English some forms apparently show a long vowel in the first syllable (compare aancora), beside evidence for the expected short vowel (compare e.g. Northumbrian oncrę ). Forms with long vowel may be due to analogy with ān one adj., based on the association of the anchorite's life with solitude. Compare Old English ānsetla anchorite ( < ān one adj. + -setla dweller (see cotsetla n. and compare Old English ancersetla anchorite)). Compare also Old English ānett solitude, also specifically ‘eremitic or anchoritic solitude’, sometimes used to translate post-classical Latin anachoresis (anchoritic) withdrawal from the world (5th cent. in Cassian). A comparable alteration is seen in Old Saxon ēnkoro anchorite (either similarly formed to, formed after, or borrowed < Old English) and also (with further suffixation, in same sense) in Old High German einchoranēr , as both show alteration of the initial syllable after the respective cognates of one adj. The Old English forms with long vowel do not appear to be continued in Middle English. Association with a ship's anchor. The following early Middle English example puns on anchor n.1, with allusion to the recluse's position with regard to the church, both as a building and as a community:?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 114 For þi is ancre ancre icleoped & vnder chirche iancred. as ancre under schipes bord. Later history. Gradually superseded by anchorite n. and anchoress n. in the course of the later Middle Ages, and only used historically from the 17th cent.
Now historical.
An anchorite.In many of these examples (e.g. quots. a1535, 1641, 1918) the term anchor is clearly intended to denote a male anchorite in contrast to an anchoress (see anchoress n.). In others, such as quots. 1493 and 2002, the term appears to be gender-neutral. On early use, see discussion in etymology.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun]
anchorOE
eremitec1200
recluse?c1225
hermitc1275
solitary1435
anchoritea1450
inclusec1460
anchorist1581
cremitt1624
mandrite1844
saint1888
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) i. 9 Feower synt muneca cyn. Ðæt forme is mynstermonna..Oþer cyn is ancrena [a1225 Winteney ancræne, L. anachoretarum], þæt is westensetlena.
OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xii. 147 Se hlisa.., þæt on þam fenne middum, on anum eglande, þe Cruwland hatte, wære sum ancra [L. heremitam], þæt [probably read þe] missenlicum mægnum for gode weohse.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 2 Nu aske ȝe wat riwlen ȝe ancren schulen habben.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 5 Her biginneð ancrene wisse.
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 335 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 228 To þe yle of Ankres þe þreotteoþe schal i-wende.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7808 An auncre [c1425 Harl. ancre]..nolde vor no þing fle out of hire house.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 28 (MED) Ancres and Hermytes þat holdeþ hem in heore Celles.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 141 Womman..In þe castel of corf ich shal do þe close Ther as an ancre.
c1425 Treat. Ten Commandments in Stud. Philol. (1910) 6 9 (MED) Preyeth for þe saul of frere Ion lacy, Anchor, and Reclused in þe new castel upon tynde.
1466 Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 226 To the Prioress of Carow, vis. viiid. To a maide that came with her, xxd. To the ancors xld.
1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) vi. xiii. sig. tii/2 Of wimen ancris so inclusid is seldome herde any of these defautys.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. sig. Diii Holy ankours & ankeres how besily they labour night & day to plese & serue our lorde.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xx. sig. S.vv Ancres and Ancresses moste specyall.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 167/2 To Crowland, wher he led the lyfe of an Anker.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 208 + 2 And Anchors cheere in prison be my scope.
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 435 Priests, Monkes, Fryers, Channons, Nunnes, Anckers, Anckeresses,..&c.
1745 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk II. xlii. 541 There was very anciently an Anchorage in this Church-Yard, which was rebuilt in 1305, where an Anchor continually resided 'till the Reformation.
1872 E. L. Cutts Scenes Middle Ages 128 There was also an anchorage in St. Ethelred's churchyard..and an anchor continually dwelt there till the Reformation.
1918 Catholic Educ. Rev. Sept. 111 Our curiosity is certainly piqued to know what sort of home was this abode of anchors and anchoresses.
2002 M. C. Erler Women, Reading, & Piety in Late Medieval Eng. ii. 59 To the anchor dwelling at London's Bishopsgate Margery left ‘a choice from the books not bequeathed elsewhere’.

Compounds

anchor-house n. an anchorite's cell; (also) a monastery or nunnery.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun]
minstereOE
monklifeeOE
clausterc1000
abbotricOE
house?a1160
anchor-house?c1225
religion?c1225
abbeyc1300
nunneryc1300
house (also abbey) of religiona1325
nunryc1325
closterc1330
cloister1340
monasterya1425
monk-house?c1475
friars1479
convent1528
guild1546
prioressy1575
abbey-stead1620
minchery1710
reclusory1821
akhara1838
house of piety1838
kloster1844
society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > hermitage > [noun]
anchor settleOE
anchor-house?c1225
cabin1362
anchorage1593
anchorhold1631
hermitary1754
reclusion1808
kill1827
ashram1917
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 71 From smiðe & from ancre hus me tidinge bringeð.
1854 Archeological Jrnl. June 198 Each of their anchorhouses seems to have had two apartments, one for the anchoress and the other for her maid.
1992 Times (Sat. Rev.) 22 May 12/1 One window of her anchor-house gave a view of the altar of the church.
† anchor settle n. Obsolete (Scottish in later use) an anchorite's seat or cell; (also) the occupant of such a seat or cell, an anchorite.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > hermitage > [noun]
anchor settleOE
anchor-house?c1225
cabin1362
anchorage1593
anchorhold1631
hermitary1754
reclusion1808
kill1827
ashram1917
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 21 Apr. (2013) 82 Þæs halgan anceran geleornes Sancte Æþelwaldes, se geset ancersetl on Fearne ðæm ealonde ærest æfter Cuthbrihte.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Twegen halige menn þe hyrsumedon Gode on ancersettle wuniende þær wæron forbearnde.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 274 O ȝe heremytis and ankirsadillis.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 6 Thair was ane woman..ane anarcadell [sic: prob. read ancarsadell] inclosit in the Grenesyid.
1603 Philotus cxxiv. sig. E2v I charge the..Thow neyther girne, gowl, glowme, nor gaip, Lyke Anker saidell like vnsell Aip.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

anchorv.

Brit. /ˈaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈæŋkər/
Forms: see anchor n.1; also early Middle English ancri, early Middle English iancred (past participle), early Middle English iancret (past participle).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anchor n.1
Etymology: < anchor n.1 Compare post-classical Latin ancorare, anchorare (10th cent.; frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), Anglo-Norman aunkrer, Anglo-Norman and Middle French ancrer (French ancrer) to secure (a ship) (c1170), to fasten or secure (an object) (1399 with reference to securing the movable parts of a mill), to fix (one's attention, etc.) (1496), Spanish †ancorar (c1240; now anclar (1535)), Portuguese ancorar (13th cent.), and also Dutch ankeren (1516), Middle Low German ankeren, Middle High German ankern (German ankern).In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix). In quots. ?c1225 at sense 1a and ?c1225 at sense 1b with punning allusion to anchor n.2 (see the discussion at that entry). With sense 4c compare slightly earlier anchorman n. 6 and later anchor n.1 5d; with sense 4a compare earlier anchorman n. 4; with sense 5 compare earlier anchorman n. 5 and later anchor n.1 5c.
1.
a. transitive. To secure (a ship, boat, or other floating object) in a particular place by means of an anchor.In quot. ?c1225 as part of an explicit comparison of the role of an anchorite in the church with that of the anchor of a ship. Cf. quot. ?c1225 at sense 1b and later figurative uses at sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship)
anchor?c1225
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 114 For þi is ancre ancre icleoped & vnder chirche iancred. as ancre under schipes bord.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1473 But better is, to voiden al myschevys, Ha skafys smale, and hem togedir trymme With coorde alonge..And anchore it.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 200 After the retrayte he ankred his galeyes vpon the ryuer of gaudiana.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 13 (MED) And oo shippe..lay y-ancred in the Havyn.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vii. ii. 8 At the schore..Thare Nauy can thay anker fast, and hank.
1612 I. M. tr. Most Famous Hist. Meruine i. ix. 58 They aymed at the port of Luternia, where they anchored their vessels.
1661 A. Burgess Expository Comment 1st Chap. 2 Cor. lxxxix. 406 The ship may be anchored fast to the earth, yet the waves and winds may move it up and down.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 339 I went with them, and anchored the Vessel in a good Birth.
1775 S. Graves Let. 15 Jan. in A. J. Wahll Voy. of Canceaux (2003) 256 The Pilot ignorantly anchored her at high water in a spot where she had not room to live afloat.
1813 R. Southey Life Nelson ix. 348 It was not possible to anchor the fleet.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 517 He there anchored his bark.
1916 Ann. Rep. U.S. Coast Guard 109 The crew of the Ossipee anchored the buoy with a 325-pound kedge anchor and 70 fathoms of wire hawser.
2001 Sport Diver (Nexis) Dec. 63/1 He had spotted a black sea bass at the bow while anchoring the ship.
b. intransitive. To secure one's ship, boat, etc., in a particular place by means of an anchor. Of a ship, boat, etc.: to be secured in this way.In quot. ?c1225 as part of an explicit comparison of the role of an anchorite in the church with that of the anchor of a ship. Cf. quot. ?c1225 at sense 1a and later figurative uses at sense 3b.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor
anchor?c1225
to come to (an) anchor?1473
to let go1530
to moor anchor1578
moor1627
to come to a killick1630
to drop anchor1634
to let fall1638
to let down1662
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 114 Alswa as halichirche þet is schip cleoped. schal ancrin on þe ancre. þet heo hit swa holde þet þe deofles þuffes..ne hit ouerwarpe.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cclxviv/1 Whan the wynde fayled, than they ancred.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 37 Cortez..anckred at the rivers mouth.
c1605 W. Adams Let. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 51 Having much wind, we durst not anchor, but directed our course for Cape Sancta Maria.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 289 Sea-faring men..whose Bark by chance Or Pinnace anchors in a craggy Bay. View more context for this quotation
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 416 We anchor'd in the Hellespont.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 1 You are welcome to anchor here as long as you list.
1813 R. Southey Life Nelson v. 147 The Vanguard was the first that anchored.
1883 W. H. Parker Recoll. Naval Officer iii. 22 On the third day toward sunset we succeeded in anchoring on the ‘rolling ground’ just outside the harbour.
1911 S. W. Mitchell John Sherwood ix. 111 We anchored in the lee of the island..and had a prosperous take of cod, haddock and rock flounders.
1955 P. Bowles Let. 23 July in In Touch (1994) 262 Most of the ships call there for an hour, anchoring in the harbor.
2009 Independent 2 Feb. 3/3 Jourdain is expected to anchor in the Azores to repair a damaged keel.
2. transitive. To fix or fasten (something) firmly in place; to attach securely, esp. to the ground or a wall. Frequently with in, on, to, etc. Frequently in passive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)]
fastenOE
firmc1374
comforta1382
to make (something) fasta1400
anchor1425
defix?a1475
harden?1523
steeve1554
lock1590
confixa1616
secure1615
succour1688
belay1751
sicker1824
snackle1887
1425 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 2 Weel beddes [read bedded] stonys þat shuld rise but a fote in þe walle and ben ankered iche of hem with other.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iv. iv. 221 + 11 Till that my Nayles were anchor'd in thine eyes.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 44 The doore-cases (well ankered into the wall).
1794 Repertory Arts & Manuf. 1 152 These hooks or catches..serve to anchor or fasten the buckle.
1855 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals (ed. 2) xiii. 275 The feet..permanently anchor the parasite to its prey.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §22. 157 My first care was to anchor it [sc. an axe] firmly in the snow.
1883 W. Conant in Harper's Mag. 930/1 The mode of anchoring the cables [of a suspension-bridge] will be described.
1917 D. Fall Sci. for Beginners xxi. 206 Light the candle and with a drop of the melted wax anchor it to the table.
1956 R. C. Evans On Climbing viii. 128 Round the bottom of the tent, on the outside, a foot-wide strip of cloth should run,..on which stones and snow can be put to anchor the tent.
2001 Times 4 Apr. 24/3 Spiral staircases don't need to be anchored to a wall so they are often viewed as space-savers.
3. figurative.
a. transitive. To fix or fasten (one's mind, emotions, etc.) to something; to provide a firm basis or foundation for (an idea, practice, belief, etc.). Frequently with in, on, upon, etc. Frequently in passive.
ΚΠ
1536 Bp. J. Longland Serm. Good Fryday sig. Liv Hee shall fyxe and anchore your myndes and loue in me.
1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 7 At last her..eyes were ancored fast on him.
1603 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Second Day of First Weeke 40 Those few, whose setled confidence Is anchored on thy sacred prouidence.
1660 S. Pordage Poems Several Occasions sig. D5 Guide him and favour 'im, with thy sure direction, And he'le not fear the threat'ning of the waves Anchoring his hope upon a God that saves.
a1708 W. Beveridge Serm. (1710) VIII. x. 328 Seeing that there is but one sure Rock,..Is it not your Wisdom to anchor your hope on him?
1781 J. Newton Cardiphonia I. 111 They have anchored their hopes, and ventured their all upon his [sc. Christ's] person.
1839 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VII. 563 He was adverse to all the liberal doctrines of the age, and anchored his faith, perhaps with too unbending rigidity, on the existing constitution in church and state.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 38 A great mind, anchored in error, might snag the slow-moving current of society.
1872 A. Manning Compton Friars xxiii. 254 We were sure he was beloved—we were sure his faith was anchored on the Rock.
1903 Christian Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 473 If any illustration be used to bring out the lesson of the day, good; but anchor it to the lesson, so as to keep the child's thought from wandering.
1965 G. Grant Lament for Nation (1991) iv. 40 If the nation were to survive, it had to be anchored in both English- and French-speaking Canada.
2008 U. Frith Autism: Very Short Introd. iii. 46 These ideas need to be anchored in basic research.
b. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To fix oneself or one's attention, hope, trust, etc., to something; to take up a position of security or stability. Frequently with in, on, to, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > be attentive, pay attention to [verb (intransitive)]
lookeOE
reckOE
heedOE
turna1200
beseec1200
yeme?c1225
to care forc1230
hearkenc1230
tendc1330
tentc1330
hangc1340
rewarda1382
behold1382
convert1413
advertc1425
lotec1425
resortc1450
advertise1477
mark1526
regard1526
pass1548
anchor1557
eye1592
attend1678
mind1768
face1863
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be or become steadfast [verb (reflexive)]
anchor1557
1557 H. Iden tr. G. B. Gelli Circes vi. sig. K.viiiv The euiles of the mynd, neuer permyttyng him to take the hauen of reason, and to anker in the same.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 232 Anker ȝow on haly Scripture.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 26 [She] wild me those Tempests of vaine loue to flee: And Anchor fast my selfe on vertues shore.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 4 Whilst my Inuention, hearing not my Tongue, Anchors on Isabell. View more context for this quotation
1632 L. Anderton tr. E. Campion Campian Englished Ep. Ded. 37 I ancker myself on those Doctours, whome that Spirit did instruct.
1671 S. Slater Treat. Growth in Grace iv. 53 I know where I have anchored, I know upon what foundation I have built my hope and confidence upon.
1703 G. Garden tr. A. Bourignon Light risen in Darkness iii. xxxiii. 140 Let us Anchor in God, and the storm will blow over without hurting us.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. v. 238 He..advances..up the province upon which he anchors.
1831 C. G. F. Gore Pin Money I. i. 16 She..anchored herself upon the history of an arabesque handle, which Mawe's people had broken from her Aldobrandini vase.
1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Philo Judæus Wks. II. 339 It is not right for the man who anchors on the hope of the alliance of God to crouch and tremble.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iii Paris is not a bad place to anchor in after a wandering life.
1918 E. F. Benson Up & Down 78 Though my sense of security from interruption was gone, I anchored myself to my page again.
1997 C. de Lint Trader 172 She stared at him, trying to find..one known landmark in those unfamiliar features, but there was nothing she could anchor on.
2008 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. In putting his foot down, he'll either anchor himself to the job or inspire enough mutiny to get himself fired.
4. Sport.
a. transitive. Originally U.S. Esp. Athletics and Swimming. To act as the anchor (anchor n.1 5b) in (a relay team or race). Also intransitive.
ΚΠ
1925 Evening Republican (Mitchell, S. Dakota) 23 Apr. 2/2 Crow and Peterson are the mainstays of the team with R. Peterson probably anchoring this year's fast quartet.
1953 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 28 Mar. 13/5 Wes Santee, the Jayhawks' Olympics star, anchored the race behind John Smith, Frank Cindrich and Dick McGlinn.
1974 Times 27 Sept. 11/6 The 4 x 400 metres relay in which David Jenkins anchored a shade riskily with a ‘leg’ in 45.8sec.
2010 L. Trimble et al. Sport in UK v. 62 He won 100m gold at the World Junior Championships in 2001 and anchored Great Britain to gold at the 2004 Olympic Games.
b. transitive. To play a central or leading role in (a team, formation, etc.); to provide with strength and stability.
ΚΠ
1967 Irish Times 26 Aug. 3/1 Even [in] the absence of Peter Flaherty..who would normally be expected to anchor the team, they contrived to silence Leinster's big guns.
1988 Gridiron Nov. 26/1 In Smith's absence, Still has anchored the Bill front line, logging 2½ sacks in the season opening win over Minnesota.
1991 Sports Illustr. May 41/2 He will have..anchored the American team in its bid to wrest back the Walker Cup from the British and the Irish.
2001 M. Breheny & D. Keenan Ultimate Encycl. Gaelic Football & Hurling 25/1 Mattie McDonagh anchored the attack from centre half-forward.
c. transitive. Association Football. Of a player placed just in front of the team’s defence: to add stability and strength to (the midfield). Also intransitive. Cf. anchor n.1 5d.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > play association football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres
clear1892
cross-kick1927
handball1935
anchor1976
1976 Daily Mail 16 Aug. 26/6 Manager Dave Mackay was planning to use Powell in the back four alongside Roy McFarland, with Colin Todd anchoring midfield and Bruce Rioch adding his explosive finishing power up front.
1984 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. (Late City ed.) v. 8/6 Kaz Deyna, the famous Polish international, will anchor the midfield with Julie Veee, Paulo Moura and Brian Quinn as his partners.
2016 FourFourTwo (Nexis) 29 July Ramsey's World Cup winners are often described as a 4-3-3, but the formation was really 4-1-3-2 with Stiles anchoring in what we now call the ‘Makelele role’.
5. transitive. Originally U.S. To act as the anchor (anchor n.1 5c) for (a radio or television programme, a programme's cast, etc.). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)] > present programme
present1935
anchor1953
society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [verb (intransitive)] > types of
anchor1977
1953 Billboard 4 Apr. 4/2 He anchors its morning line-up and has undoubtedly upped the ratings of four other shows with his powerful lead-off.
1961 Sunday Times 26 Feb. 48/5 They employed Mr. John Freeman to anchor an hour of absorbing recapitulation.
1977 New Yorker 11 Apr. 104/2 Her ambition is simple and straightforward—‘to anchor in a top-ten market’.
2011 Independent 6 Apr. 31/2 Defecting from NBC after 15 years co-hosting the breakfast Today Show, she was the first woman to anchor a network evening news bulletin alone.
6. transitive. Originally U.S. Of a business or organization: to serve as an anchor (anchor n.1 7) for (an area, shopping centre, etc.).
ΚΠ
1967 Observer 26 Feb. 9/4 The American idea of an out-of-town shopping precinct with 50 or more speciality shops ‘anchored’ by two department stores.
1967 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 12 May 3/7 Anchoring the strip on the north would be a civic complex.
1989 RIBA Jrnl. Aug. 68/2 The new catering facilities..may have had as much impact in increasing circulation as the new Marks and Spencer satellite store built to ‘anchor’ the area.
2006 C. D. Bates et al. Hometown Pasadena 203 In the rest of the mall, anchored by department stores Nordstrom, Macy's, JC Penney and Robinsons-May, you'll truly find something for everyone.
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