anchorhold
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]anchorhold (countable and uncountable, plural anchorholds)
- The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
- 1893, Emily Sarah Holt, “Chapter Five. Warned”, in One Snowy Night[1], Reprint edition (Historical Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
- Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, […]
- The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds.
- 1763, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:
- The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay
- 1910, Captain Walter Biggs, Drake's Great Armada[2], Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2006:
- […] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]
- (figurative) Firm hold; security.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “anchor-hold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.