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Anchor light   /ˈæŋkər laɪt/   Listen
Anchor light

noun
1.
A light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor.  Synonyms: riding lamp, riding light.






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"Anchor light" Quotes from Famous Books



... more. I went to the window and drew aside the little curtain. Down below, in the cove, I could see the Snowbird's anchor light, gleaming brilliantly. The windows of some of the houses shed a sickly pale radiance, but beyond this everything was in darkness, with just the faintest suggestion of enormous masses representing the jagged cliffs. ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick

... never seen that harbor before that night, but he sheered close in to every ship's anchor light he saw and hailed for the course to the oil dock. Most of them did not know, but one now and then passed him a word or two, and so he bumped along and by and ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly



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