Verb:

ଆଙ୍କର୍ |,

drop anchor's Usage Examples:

January 3, 1850, some 30 miles upriver, Captain Wilcox was forced to drop anchor, his way blocked by shoals too shallow to pass.

designated location at sea for ships to drop anchor.

HistoryThe first written description of Kīpahulu was made by Jean-François de Galaup in 1786 while sailing along the southeast coast of Maui in search of a place to drop anchor:I coasted along its shore at a distance of a league (three miles) ….

Large ocean-going ships used to drop anchor in the sea near by and load and unload goods.

to the poor harbor conditions, the daily Hurtigruten steamers had to drop anchor a little way out from the shore and then smaller boats had to ferry people.

It is sure, however, that Ferdinand Magellan did not drop anchor by the mouth of Agusan River in 1521 and hold mass to commemorate the event which was held at Mazaua, an island separate from Butuan which, in the geographical conception of Europeans who wrote about it, was a larger entity than what it is now.

She was the first American Ship to drop anchor in Japanese(Tokyo)water before the surrender.

Cruise ships drop anchor outside the port and are tendered by local citizens.

[citation needed] They would drop anchor several hundred yards offshore and use their Mike 8"s (LCM-8) and Mike.

This show was filmed in drop anchor GOA.

to confusion of the terms and the misunderstanding that it means "to drop anchor".

reach safe harbor, but Homer first says they need to drop anchor and batten down the hatches and then responds to Bart"s complaint about Homer ignoring.

making it the "second time in 40 years that a state ferry was forced to drop anchor.

Synonyms:

fix, fasten, secure, ground,

Antonyms:

unfasten, detach, unbuckle, unzip, unlock,