anchored

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of anchor

Adjective

(not comparable)

(heraldry) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
an anchored cross

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Smiling, he anchored it with the magnet.
The ship anchored near the shore, where barbarians in ill-fitting clothing made of animal skins awaited them.
He anchored in some confusion in Calais roads.
The British admiral had barely anchored at Zante before he was informed that the sultan's forces were putting to sea.
She was in such shallow water that the Confederate iron-clad ram could not get near her at ebb tide, and about 5 o'clock the Confederates postponed her capture until the next day and anchored off Sewell's Point.

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