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anchorhold

noun

Etymology

From anchor + hold.

  1. derived from *kel-✻
  2. derived from *haldaną✻
  3. derived from *haldan✻
  4. derived from healdan
  5. derived from holden
  6. compounded as anchorhold — “anchor + hold”

Definitions

  1. The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.

    • Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, […]

  2. The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds.

    • The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay
    • […] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]

  3. Firm hold

    Firm hold; security.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA