Also 6 anchoridge, 9 ankrage. [f. ANCHOR sb.2 + -AGE. Cf. hermitage, parsonage.] The cell or retreat of an anchoret.
1593. Mon. & Rites Ch. Durh. (1842), 15. At the east end … of the Quire … was the goodlyest faire porch which was called the anchoridge.
1598. Stow, Surv. (ed. Strype, 1754), I. III. xii. 712/1. Build her a Recluse or Anchorage.
1852. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. 115. His ankrage or house, in which he [the ankret] was solemnly shut up.
1872. E. Cutts, Scenes Mid. Ages, 128. There was also an anchorage in St. Ethelred’s churchyard … and an anchor continually dwelt there till the Reformation.
