Verb:

ਲੰਗਰ,

weigh anchor's Usage Examples:

dinner To weigh anchor To grind one"s teeth Nowhere near the mark To throw cold water on Complete the circle In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is.

Soon, however, she had to weigh anchor in an effort to avoid all the vessels adrift in the anchorage.

one"s own skin Hanging by a thread The dog is worthy of his dinner To weigh anchor To grind one"s teeth Nowhere near the mark To throw cold water on Complete.

Simultaneously, Seyid Ali ordered his squadron to weigh anchor and flee to the safely of the Dardanelles.

To "weigh anchor" is to bring it aboard a vessel in preparation for departure.

Unfortunately, the Cadboro was unable to weigh anchor close enough to shore to safely unload cargo at the site McMillan had.

was agreed by the captain and myself, with the master and others to weigh anchor and go for the place at Croatoan where our planters were for that then.

The whaler was used to help set or weigh anchor, and fetch water.

The women watch as they raise the sails and weigh anchor.

maintain fire and, by 22:15, Exmouth gave the order for the fleet to weigh anchor and sail out of range, leaving HMS Minden to keep firing to suppress.

"Captain Morgan defends trademark as Admiral Nelson"s is ordered to weigh anchor".

inferior Ottoman fleet, it took Doria three hours to give the order to weigh anchor and ready for battle—pressed by Grimani and Capello.

Seeing this, the crew remaining on the ships decided to weigh anchor and return to Spain.

Synonyms:

heave, heft up, weigh the anchor, heft, heave up,

Antonyms:

fall, deflate, stand still, lightness,