| 单词 | anchoring place |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanchoring place anchoring place n. a place suitable for, or used for, anchoring a vessel. [Compare Dutch ankerplaats (1602).] ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > place of anchorage anchoring place1598 grappling1712 anchorage1835 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. v. 314/2 From thence to Mosambique are some rodes or ankering places, from 18. to fiue and twentie fadome deepe. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 497 In the ankoring places it [sc. the Sea] was Blue. 1796 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 309 Not one anchoring place from Genoa to Ventimiglia was accessible. 1995 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. a1 The gorge really has no safe anchoring places. < as lemmas |
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