An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

The Anchor is a peek. See the article Apeek.

The Anchor is a-trip, or a-weigh. See those articles.

To back the Anchor. See Back.

To cat the Anchor, caponner l’ancre, is to hook a tackle called the cat to its ring, and thereby pull it up close to the cat-head, which see.

To fish the Anchor, to draw up the flukes upon the ship’s side after it is catted. See the articles Davit and Fish.

To sheer the ship to her Anchor, gouverner sur l’ancre, is to steer the ship’s head towards the place where the anchor lies when they are heaving the cable into the ship; that the cable may thereby enter the hause with less resistance, and the ship advance towards the anchor with greater facility.

To shoe the Anchor. See the article Shoe.

To weigh the Anchor, lever l’ancre, to heave the anchor out of the ground by its cable. See Capstern and Windlass.

To weigh the Anchor with the long-boat, lever l’ancre avec la chaloupe, is to draw it up by applying mechanical powers to the buoy-rope, and thereby pull it up to the boat’s stem or stern.

To weigh the Anchor by the hair, is to weigh it by the cable in a boat, when the ship cannot approach it, or when the buoy rope is broke. See the French term Ancre, and the phrases which succeed in order.