disanchor
English
Etymology
dis- + anchor: compare French désancrer.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Verb
disanchor (third-person singular simple present disanchors, present participle disanchoring, simple past and past participle disanchored)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disanchor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)