Questions people ask about “anchor”
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- What is a iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station called?→ worddirectanswers.com
- What is any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a called?→ worddirectanswers.com
- What is fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety called?→ worddirectanswers.com
- What is (a) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together called?→ worddirectanswers.com
- What is (Zoöl.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta called?→ worddirectanswers.com
- What is to place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship called?→ worddirectanswers.com
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