anchor

1. A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
2. An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
3. The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
4. Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
5. Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
6. A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
7. An anchorman or anchorwoman.
8. The final runner in a relay race.
9. A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
10. A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
11. That which gives stability or security.
12. A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
13. Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
14. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
15. One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
16. The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
17. An anchorite or anchoress.

1. To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
2. To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

   Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

3. To stop; to fix or rest.
4. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
5. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
6. To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

noun

A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.