ppl. a. [f. ANCHOR + -ED.]

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  1.  a. With the anchor let down to the ground; b. Held fast, secured by the anchor; c. Firmly fixed, fixed so as to obtain support, or be at rest.

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1611.  Cotgr., Ancré, ankored, having cast ankor, at an ankor.

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a. 1687.  Waller, Poems (1705), 342 (L.).

        Like a well twisted Cable, holding fast
The Anchor’d Vessel in the lowdest Blast.

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a. 1725.  Pope, Odyss., IV. 485. There, anchor’d vessels safe in harbour lie.

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1837.  Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857), II. 248. Each ear of grain is anchored by its stalk.

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1878.  Seeley, Stein, II. 30. Stein wore the look of one anchored and secure.

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  2.  Furnished with anchors; by extension, esp. in Her., Furnished with anchor-like appendages, having two spreading points.

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1611.  Cotgr., Ancré, ankored … made or fashioned like an ankor.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. I. II. xxix. With scornfull hisse, shooting her anchor’d tongue.

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1661.  S. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, II. i. 13. Anckred is that form of cross whose points are made sharp like unto an ancker.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., Ankred … so they call one of their Crosses in a Coat of Arms.

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