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单词 unanchor
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unanchorv.

Etymology: un- prefix2 1b(b). Compare Dutch ontankeren.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈanchor.
transitive. To loose from anchor.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor
disanchor1477
unanchor1648
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ontanckert, un-anckred, or, the Ancker wound up.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 134 Whose Cable Pietie vn-Anchored, Yet fixt her vessell steddie, in the Bed Of many waters meeting.
1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun in Wks. (1854) III. 10 Now, then, through three-fourths of an hour Kate will have free elbow-room for unanchoring her boat.
refl. and absol.1878 Dallinger in Proc. Royal Soc. 27 337 [It attaches] itself to one of the springing forms, which at once unanchors itself, and both together swim freely and vigorously about.1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 511/2 It soon comes in contact with a colony of the organism in the perfectly flagellate condition, attaches itself to one of them, which soon unanchors, and both swim away.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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