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German : from Middle High German anker ‘anchor’, applied either as an occupational name for a smith who made ships’ anchors or as a habitational name from a house identified by an anchor.English : from the Old French personal name Anchier (see Angier).Norwegian and Swedish : probably originally a Swedish soldier’s name meaning ‘anchor’. This is the name of a powerful and influential Norwegian family, who came to Christiana (Oslo) from Sweden in 1668.Danish : from a personal name, of which the first element means ‘eagle’ and the second (probably) ‘violent’.Americanized form of northern French Anquier, from a personal name of Germanic origin (see Angier).
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English : variant spelling of Ankers, itself a variant of Anker.
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The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
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That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
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A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.
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The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
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To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.
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Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
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An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
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The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
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The set of anchors belonging to a ship.