HIGH AND DRY

Definition: HIGH AND DRY

HIGH AND DRY

1. Out of water; out of reach of the current or tide; -- said of a vessel, aground or beached.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Safety

Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended).

Stability

Transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded.

Crosswords: HIGH AND DRY

Leavin' him pretty and high and dry (Pretty and High; performing artist: The Roches)

Pretty and high and dry (Pretty and High; performing artist: The Roches)

High and Dry (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

NOAA photo crews help ground-truth disaster damage following Hurricane Camille 20-foot storm surge left many vessels high and dry. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

USS LST-1 (right) and USS LST-292 "high and dry" on the beach as Saint-Michel-en-Greves, on the north shore of the Brittany Peninsula, during supply operations in support of the campaign against German forces at Brest, France, in September 1944. Taken by a SHAEF photographer. Credit: NAVY.

USS LST-325 (right) and USS LST-72 unloading directly onto trucks, after being left "high and dry" by the tide at Morlaix, France, 5 September 1944. Photographed Harold. Credit: NAVY.

Loading vehicles at Wolmi-Do Island, Inchon Harbor, South Korea, on 13 October 1950, while preparing for the Wonsan operation. Note that the ship has been left "high and dry" by the tide. Credit: NAVY.

Houseboat washed high and dry amid debris. Maunie, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Hungarian

zátonyra futott (stranded, to be on the rocks), megfeneklett (stranded, to be bunkered). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高燥地 (high and dry ground), 高燥 (high and dry ground). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うそうち (high and dry ground), �"うそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay anday ydray

Romanian

fãrã vânt (breathless, calm), împotmolit (aground). (various references)

Thai

โ�"นละทิ้ง. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: draying, radding, yarding.

-4 letters: adding, daring, dinghy, drying, gradin, grainy, hading, haring, haying, hydria, hydrid, raying.

-5 letters: angry, dairy, dandy, diary, dinar, dingy, drain, dryad, dying, gaddi, gadid, garni, giddy, grain, grand, grind, hairy, handy, hardy, hydra, hying, nadir, rainy, randy, rangy, ranid, ridgy, yaird.