Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A piece of rope or chain by which the ring of an anchor is secured to the cat-head.
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As her own ring-stopper and shank-painter were weak, the patent windlass unlocked, and the end of the cable not secured in the chain-locker, the _Ishmaelite_ walked calmly away with the anchor and a hundred fathoms of chain, which, at the next port, she sold as legitimate spoil of the sea.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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