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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
A tattoo that is worn by a sailor that has crossed the Atlantic. Crossed anchors on the web between the thumb and index finger indicates the sailor is a Boatswain.
Anchors away is British rhyming slang for homosexual (gay).
Anchors is British slang for brakes.
The ship drops one of its anchors at high speed to turn abruptly. This was sometimes used as a means to get a good firing angle on a pursuing vessel.
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A large winch with a vertical axis. In the days of sail, a full-sized human-powered capstan was a waist-high cylindrical machine, operated by a number of hands who each insert a horizontal capstan bar in holes in the capstan and walk in a circle. Used to wind in anchors or other heavy objects; and sometimes to administer flogging over.
Noun. Brakes. E.g."I slammed the anchors on and hit my head on the steering wheel."
a tangle of the hair, lines and twines, or chains and anchors on the bottom of the bay
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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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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 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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The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
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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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The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
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The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
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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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That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
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