Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Held by an anchor.
- Shaped like an anchor; fluked; forked.
- In heraldry, an epithet applied to a cross whose extremities are turned back like the flukes of an anchor. Equivalent forms are ancrée, ancred, anchry.
- In billiards, said of two object-balls which, with the cue-ball near, straddle a short line close to the cushion, because a player can hold them long in that position by playing alternately from side to side. This is possible only in games of balk-line billiards, and since 1893 has been barred among the best players.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of anchor.
- adj. heraldry Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; ; also, shaped like an anchor; forked.
- adj. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
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