Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line attached to a small buoy and to one fluke of an anchor: used in towing a raft of logs and to free the anchor when fast to rocks or snags.
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Examples
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But Harvey's anchor-line was cut, and so was Penn's, and they were turned into relief-boats to carry fish to the 'We're Here' as the dories filled.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Then the craft's anchor-line was unfastened, and our painter hitched on to it instead.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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This cipher is not a hero in either work, merely a device around whom the narrative is created, the anchor-line that enables the kite to fly.
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There; now keep the anchor-line slack between us, if you can, "rapidly said the hunter, bending his sinewy form to the work, with a power that sent his canoe half out of the water at every stroke of his swiftly-falling oar.
Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831
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