Synonyms for anchorage

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ang-ker-ij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæŋ kər ɪdʒ

Définition of anchorage

Origin : mid-14c., "toll or charge for anchoring" (see anchor (v.) + -age. Meaning "act of dropping anchor, being at anchor" is from 1610s; that of "place suitable for anchoring" is from 1706. The Alaska city of Anchorage was founded 1914.

noun mooring

Example sentences :

There ought to have been a tranquil bark in such an anchorage, and there was.
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

It pushed its way to the water at her very feet, and chose that as its anchorage.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

Why else should she move from her anchorage thus in the dead of night?
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

The yacht had gone off to her anchorage, and we had to wait some time for a boat.
Extract from : « The Last Voyage » by Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

The anchorage is protected from all winds except those from the south-east.
Extract from : « The Last Voyage » by Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

The land—I say, the mainland is at least seven miles off my anchorage.
Extract from : « The Secret Sharer » by Joseph Conrad

I remarked that we had been in luck to fetch the anchorage before dark.
Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad

Were they to do so, Boston might be bombarded, and the ships driven from their anchorage.
Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin

Piang let go his anchorage and headed for the mouth of the ditch.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy » by Florence Partello Stuart

We must get the vessel away from them and take her back to her anchorage.
Extract from : « Little By Little » by William Taylor Adams

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