anchor

A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

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.

An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached.

The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.

Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.

To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.

To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

To stop; to fix or rest.

My invention […] anchors on Isabel.

To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

An anchorite or anchoress.

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, […]