Strong iron hoops, binding the stock to the end of the shank and over the nuts of the anchor.
The strong iron bindings of the anchor-stock to the shank, though square, are called hoops. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun An emblem of hope. II. Anchor ·noun An <<Anchoret>>. III. Anchor ·vi To <<Stop>>; to fix or ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A house so called near Aldermanbury given to the parish of St. Olave Jewry (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Bring your a-se to an anchor, i.e. sit down. To let go an anchor to the windward of the law; to keep...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
of a buckle, the chape. Glou. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A large and heavy instrument in use from the earliest times for holding and retaining ships, which i...
(Acts 27:29) ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
The iron hoops on made or built masts. ...
Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, b...
·add. ·- The common recoil escapement. II. Anchor escapement ·add. ·- A variety of the lever escape...
·add. ·- The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require v...
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space. ...
·add. ·- In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3/, lying along a cushion and bisec...
·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...
·noun Hence: Firm hold: security. II. Anchor-hold ·noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to w...
·- ·see Drag sail, under 4th Drag. ...
·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge. II. Sheet...
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 68 to Three Cranes, on the west side of Vintners' Hall (P.O....
On the west side of Duck Lane, in Aldersgate Ward (Rocque, 1746-L. Guide, 1758). The site is now oc...
South out of Upper Thames Street at No.9 to the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward, between Crown and Ho...
Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extends to the Blue Anchor (Str...
A pyrotechnical combustible attached to a grapnel for adhering to and setting fire to ships. ...
Pieces indented into a wooden anchor-stock where it has become worn or defective in the way of the s...
See davit. ...
The fastness of the flukes on the ground; also the act of having cast anchor, and taken the ground. ...
The ice which is formed on and incrustates the beds of lakes and rivers: the ground-gru of the easte...
The short pieces of plank fastened to the sides of the ship, under the fore-channels, to prevent the...
Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...
An old term for the prow of a ship, still in use with eastern nations Chinese, Japanese, &c. ...
An open link of iron which connects the chain with the anchor a "Jew's-harp" shackle. ...
A forger of anchors. ...
A bar at the upper end of the shank, crossing the direction of the flukes transversely, to steady th...
is a mode of securing and working planks in general with tapered butts. ...
A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...
The situation of a vessel riding in a road or port by her anchor. ...
A simple machine consisting of a fourfold canvas, stretched by two cross-bars of iron, rivetted in t...
That which the ship rides by during the flood-tide. ...
An anchor is said to be foul, or fouled, either when it hooks some impediment under water, or when t...
A bar of round iron tapered to a point, and bent as a pot-hook; a hole is cut in the ice, the point ...
The leeward one, if under weigh; or that to leeward to which a ship, when moored, is riding. ...
A kedge used for dropping a vessel in a stream or tide-way. ...
The excellent small-palmed, very strong and good-holding anchor. It is the result of many years' stu...
That which lies towards the offing when a ship is moored. ...
One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...
That which lies between the shore and the ship when moored. ...
A ship unmoored, having hove up one bower, rides by the other. ...
An additional anchor the size of a bower. ...
A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moo...
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station. ...
An additional or spare anchor stowed before the chess-tree. (See spare anchor.) ...
That lying to windward, by which a ship rides when moored. ...
1) In Great Minories (Dodsley, 1761). Not further identified. 2) In St. Katherine's precinct (Dods...
In Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...
On the south-west side of Duck Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, at the Corner of Little Britain (O....
West out of Coleman Street at No. 1 and north to London Wall. In Coleman Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-E...
In Shoe Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. Name derived from the sign. ...
The method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks...
A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...
Place the anchor in-board in the boat. ...
When the cat is hooked and "cable enough" veered and stoppered, the anchor hangs below the cat-head,...
When a seaman forgets his craft, and gives his ship too little cable to ride by, she may be thrown a...
North out of Aldgate High Street, near the eastern boundary of Portsoken Ward and within the ward. "...
Synonymous with anchor-stock. ...
That part of the arm prepared to receive the palm. ...
The act of the anchors coming home. ...
The hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed. ...
To turn up the flukes of an anchor to the gunwale for stowage, after being catted. ♦ Other fish to...
Either by the purchase; or a ship if she has not sufficient cable on a steep bank lifts, or shoulder...
Two projections either raised or welded on the square part of the shank, for securing the stock to i...
The bill or extremity of the palm, which, as seamen by custom drop the k, is pronounced pea; it is t...
A flat block of hard wood, convex on the back, and having a hole sufficiently large to contain the b...
To heave it up in sight, in order to prove that it is clear, when, from the ship having gone over it...
A cross-beam of wood, or bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank at right angles with the...
A strong rope attached to the cat-head, which, passing through the anchor-ring, is afterwards fasten...
The lower end of the shank, where it thickens towards the arms, usually at one-third from the crown....
See Anchor Wharf. ...
See Anchor Alley. ...
See Blue Anchor Inn. ...
See Crown and Shears Place and Red Gate Court. ...
is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...
To let go the anchor in the intended port. "All hands bring ship to an anchor!" The order by which t...
The same as creep or sweep. ...
Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...
To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...
See Baily Place. ...
See Anchor and Hart Alley. ...