What is the meaning of ANCHORS AWEIGH. Phrases containing ANCHORS AWEIGH
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A small buoy secured by a light line to an anchor to indicate position of anchor on bottom.
n. your child, or children (anchors) that keep(s) you from riding. "Wait till you anchors grow up, you'll have road rash for breakfast and prunes for dinner!" To be used as an endearing, not demeaning, phrase.
Anchors away is British rhyming slang for homosexual (gay).
Custom made wheels or rims for your car. "I made it big in the rap game & bought a car for my ma; now she sittin' on 20 inch anchors-readin' about her boy in the newspapers."Â
Dark Anchors.
Noun. Brakes. E.g."I slammed the anchors on and hit my head on the steering wheel."
Anchors is British slang for brakes.
To heave up the anchor in preparation for making way.
1. An object designed to prevent or slow the drift of a ship, attached to the ship by a line or chain; typically a metal, hook-like or plough-like object designed to grip the bottom under the body of water (but also see sea anchor). 2. The act of deploying an anchor ("She anchored offshore.")
The chain connecting the ship to the anchor.
Set hand brakes on still cars; the opposite is release anchors
A special watch while at anchor, especially during a storm, to detect if the anchor is dragging.
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v. t.
To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
n.
An anchoret.
imp. & p. p.
of Anchor
n.
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
n.
Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
v. i.
To weigh anchor.
a.
Anchor-shaped.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Anchor
v. t.
To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
v. i.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
n.
The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
n.
A female anchoret.
n.
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 contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
a.
Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
v. t.
To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.
a.
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.
v. t.
To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
v. t.
A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
n.
The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
v. t. & i.
To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
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