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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 sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR
To shoe the ANCHOR
To weigh the ANCHOR
ANCHOR-ground
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To weigh the ANCHOR
To weigh the ANCHOR (lever l'ancre, Fr.) to heave the anchor out of the ground by its cable. See CAPSTERN and WINDLASS.To weigh the ANCHOR with the long-boat (lever l'ancre avec la chaloupe, Fr.) is to draw it. up by applying mechanical powers to the buoy-rope, and thereby pulling it up to the boat's stem or stern.
To weigh the ANCHOR by the hair, is to weigh it by the cable in a boat, when the ship cannot approach it, or when the buoy-rope is broke. See the French term Ancre, and the phrases which succeed in order.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 10, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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