Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Held by an anchor.
- Shaped like an anchor; fluked; forked.
- In heraldry, an epithet applied to a cross whose extremities are turned back like the flukes of an anchor. Equivalent forms are ancrée, ancred, anchry.
- In billiards, said of two object-balls which, with the cue-ball near, straddle a short line close to the cushion, because a player can hold them long in that position by playing alternately from side to side. This is possible only in games of balk-line billiards, and since 1893 has been barred among the best players.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; ; also, shaped like an anchor; forked.
- adjective (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
anchor . - adjective heraldry Having the extremities turned back, like the
flukes of ananchor .
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The kids are sometimes called anchored babies because they can petition the government to make their parents citizens once they reach an age of 21, and that has led a lot of people to suspect that their parents conceived them just to get themselves citizenship.
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That night the photographer's call anchored the drifting girl.
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In the evening the _Lena_ arrived, 36 hours after the _Vega_ had anchored, that is to say, precisely at the appointed time.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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