unanchor
weigh anchor
drop anchor
weigh
lock
furl
cast anchor
mooring
anchor
tail
anchorhold
guy
anchorage ground
anchorage
hook
drogue anchor
hawse
rode
drift anchor
moor up
tying up
trip
kent
moor
moorage
docking
dockage
rond-anchor
cast
snubbing post
scramble net
docklike
coaming
maintop
outrigged
anchor chain
anchor line
hawsehole
sprittie
grapnel
anchor rope
focalism
boatlift
cast off
poleboat
clubhaul
stock tackle
lightship
stay
tether
keel
halyard
halliard
deadwood
disembark
summercastle
anchor's aweigh
sternpicker
bollard
kedge
sprit
lockside
bitt
anchorlike
cargo net
ratlin
cat
ricker
untruss
snag
sternfast
catenary
unmoor
go below
bait
ratline
shank-painter
barge pole
alow
quarterdeck
breast line
warp
counter
anchorman
moon pool
bumkin
going ashore
close quarter
breastfast
undock
hydrofoil
harbor
docklike
outrigged
lockside
anchorlike
alow
mooring
anchorhold
guy
anchorage ground
anchorage
hook
drogue anchor
hawse
rode
drift anchor
anchor
tying up
moorage
docking
dockage
rond-anchor
snubbing post
scramble net
coaming
maintop
anchor chain
anchor line
hawsehole
sprittie
grapnel
anchor rope
focalism
boatlift
poleboat
stock tackle
lightship
stay
tether
halyard
halliard
deadwood
summercastle
sternpicker
bollard
kedge
sprit
bitt
cargo net
ratlin
cat
ricker
sternfast
catenary
ratline
shank-painter
barge pole
quarterdeck
breast line
counter
anchorman
moon pool
bumkin
going ashore
close quarter
breastfast
hydrofoil
harbor
unanchor
weigh anchor
drop anchor
weigh
lock
furl
cast anchor
anchor
tail
moor up
trip
kent
moor
cast
cast off
clubhaul
keel
disembark
untruss
snag
unmoor
go below
bait
warp
undock
verb
- To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- To weigh anchor.
- To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- To consider a subject.
- To have a certain weight.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- To determine the weight of an object.
- Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
verb
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To fasten with a lock.
- To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- To play in the position of lock.
- To become fastened in place.
- To intertwine or dovetail.
- To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
noun
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- Complete control over a situation.
- The firing mechanism.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
verb
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
adj
noun
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- A tailing.
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The buttocks or backside.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
noun
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
noun
- A ship's anchor.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
adj
noun
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
verb
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
adj
noun
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- A squint.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
verb
noun
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adv
adj
noun
- a strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay
- a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
- the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
- The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)
verb
verb
- To mark with ruddle.
- To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
- to collapse, to fall
- To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
noun
- A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
- A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
- The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
- A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
- Red chalk; ruddle.
- The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
- A type of flat-bottomed boat.
- The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
noun
- Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
noun
- A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
- A prostitute.
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- A spiteful or angry woman.
- A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- An animal of the family Felidae
- Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- A person (usually male).
- Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
adj
verb
- To go wandering at night.
- To vomit.
- To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
verb
- To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To obtain or pick up.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
noun
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- A sausage.
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- A goal.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A problem or difficulty with something.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
noun
- The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces.
- A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
adj
verb
- To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
- To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- To attract with bait; to entice.
- (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
- To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- A packed lunch.
- A post intended to get a rise out of others.
- Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
- A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A miner's packed meal.
adj
verb
- To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- To move or be moved by this method.
- To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
noun
- The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
noun
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adv
adj
noun
- A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
- Any place of shelter.
- A mixing box for materials.
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - Sarah Orne Jewett
verb
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