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ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS
Foul ANCHOR
To ANCHOR
ANCHOR is a cock-bill
At ANCHOR
The ANCHOR is a-peek
The ANCHOR as a-trip, or a-weigh
To back the ANCHOR
To cat the ANCHOR
To fish the ANCHOR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
ASHORE to AUGER
AWEIGH to AZIMUTH COMPASS
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ANCHOR is a cock-bill
The ANCHOR is a cock-bill (ancre est a Ia veille, Fr.) implies that the shank-painter, or rope by which the flukes were hung to the ship's bow, being cast off, the flukes drop down perpendicularly; whilst the anchor is suspended at the cat-head by its stopper, ready to be sunk from the bow at a moment's warning.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 9, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0049.html