up-anchor

They watched the barges up-anchor, and before we began to jerk into line I could hear their conversation.

Greenmantle 2005

There seemed nothing for it but to up-anchor, and to sea again in my shirt.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

The reason I didn't up-anchor and get out that night was that, when I came aboard I discovered not far from my berth the unobtrusive loom of that Dutch gunboat, arrived for a "look-in" at last.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

It seemed as if any extreme of hazard were to be preferred to so grisly a certainty; as if it would be better to up-anchor after all, put to sea at a venture, and, perhaps, perish at the hands of cannibals on one of the more obscure Paumotus.

The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907

They watched the barges up-anchor, and before we began to jerk into line I could hear their conversation.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

Then they returned to their ship, and up-anchor, and away along the coast, so far as that allowed, but always keeping a straight course.

Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Maurice Hewlett 1892

The rush of expectant men out of the forecastle, the snatching of hand-spikes, the tramp of feet, the clink of the pawls, make a stirring accompaniment to a plaintive up-anchor song with a roaring chorus; and this burst of noisy activity from a whole ship's crew seems like a voiceful awakening of the ship herself, till then, in the picturesque phrase of Dutch seamen, "lying asleep upon her iron."

The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

"We'd better not leave this here spot until we see 'em up-anchor and get well away," advised Jake.

Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886

_Irresistible_, saw the flashes along the Hillsea ridge and Portsdown height and heard the roar of the explosions, he at once up-anchor and got his squadron under way.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Signal to Squadron A to up-anchor at once and telephone to Squadron B to do the same.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881