CAST ANCHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast anchor mean? 

• CAST ANCHOR (verb)
  The verb CAST ANCHOR has 1 sense:

1. secure a vessel with an anchor

  Familiarity information: CAST ANCHOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST ANCHOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secure a vessel with an anchor

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

anchor; cast anchor; drop anchor

Context example:

We anchored at Baltimore

Hypernyms (to "cast anchor" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

On the fifth of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs, about nine in the morning, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)