anchor
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Is anchor a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.Examples: "Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say."
2. (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
3. (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
4. (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
5. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.Internet
6. (computing) A line of code in a program which acts as a reference point for further code to be added immediately before or after, usually via copy and paste.
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.Examples: "Nor earth to me giue foode, nor heauen light, / Sport and repoſe lock from me day and night, / To deſperation turn my truſt and hope, / And Anchors cheere in priſon be my ſcope, […]"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary