Anchors
['æŋkɚ]
Examples
- So we are getting up the anchors and preparing to sail to his watering-place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Its strength has often been severely tested, as it has been sometime drawn up by ships' anchors, and considerably strained; but it has not been broken, and the insulation is almost perfect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The next comer was a gentleman in a shirt emblazoned with pink anchors, who was closely followed by a pale youth with a plated watchguard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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