anchors

Synonyms

moor anchorman presenter aweigh hooks braces linchpin drop anchor cast anchor ground tackle

Phrases with the word

slam on the anchors

Examples

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Sophocles

Our discombobulated lives need to sink some anchors in numerical stability. (I still have not recovered from the rise of a pound of hamburger at the supermarket to more than a buck.) Stephen Jay Gould

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. William Falconer

Good riding at two anchors men have told, For it one break, the other yet may hold. Italian Proverb

A boat stands firmer with two anchors. Russian Proverb

It is best to trust to two anchors. Danish Proverb