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Drop anchor   /drɑp ˈæŋkər/   Listen
Drop anchor

verb
1.
Secure a vessel with an anchor.  Synonyms: anchor, cast anchor.






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"Drop anchor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Captain Corbet, pointing to the long cape which stretched between them and the New Brunswick shore. "An if it goes down, an we can't get by the cape, we'll be able, at any rate, to drop anchor there, an hold ...
— Lost in the Fog • James De Mille

... however, continued very light, and the vessel did little more than drift with the tide, and when it turned at two o'clock they had to drop anchor again close under some high land, on the top of ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... Emperor's palace amid the Illyrian hills, till, acting on a sudden impulse, he would call an order to the skipper, an order which he would countermand next day. A few days after the yacht would sail towards the Acropolis as though Owen had intended to drop anchor in the Piraeeus. But he was too immersed in his grief, he thought, to be able to give his attention to ruins, whether Roman or Greek. All the same, he would have to decide if he would return to the islands. He did not know them all; he had never been to Samos, famous for its wine ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore



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