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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. (Naut.) the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

Examples

  • “I noted its effect on my small crew, when, breaking their backs and hearts at heaving up anchor in forty fathoms, they knocked off gasping and trembling at the end of half an hour and had new life put into them by stiff jolts of rum.”

    Chapter 32

  • “We hove up anchor to a jolly chanty, and sailed out of Yokohama harbour for San Francisco.”

    Chapter 17

  • “Late that afternoon we hove up anchor and got away.”

    Chapter 16

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. slip
  2. bring
  3. up
  4. heave
  5. fish-tackle
  1. short-stay
  2. stock-tackle
  3. anchor-lining
  4. cat
  5. cat-block
  1. flying bridge
  2. cat block
  3. fish fall
  4. weigh anchor
  5. weigh the anchor
  1. up anchor
  2. windlass
  3. awash
  4. catfall
  5. come
  1. fish
  2. nipper
  3. range
  4. sprocket
  5. tierer
  1. under
  2. weigh
  3. work

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