anchored
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1. anchored - Adjective
2. anchored - Verb
Meaning
of Anchor
Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.
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About half of them died in captivity, many thousands of them aboard prison ships anchored in Brooklyn’s Wallabout Bay, later home of that borough’s Navy Yard.
Admiral George Grey, conducting the geographic survey in November 1836 had the following to say about their first view of East Falkland: We anchored a little after sunset off a creek called ' Johnson's Harbour '.
After at least 18 months away, Pizarro and his followers anchored off the coasts of Panama to prepare for the final expedition.
After unmooring sexuality from biology, he anchored it in history, arguing that this thing we now call sexuality came into existence in the eighteenth-century West and did not exist previously in this form.
All agreed, in the end, that liberty was the capacity for one to make laws of action for oneself according to reason, and this reason was one that was anchored in the common, universal parameters of our living in a social world with and among others.
A Roost is normally anchored by a Coast Guard Air Station.