Sea Anchor

Definition: Sea Anchor

Sea Anchor

Noun

1. Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.

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Food & Agriculture

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

Synonym: Sea Anchor

Crosswords: Sea Anchor

Figure 48. A sea bottom dredge designed by Jacques Picard in 1961 at the Marseille Marine Station and first used in the Bay of Marseille. This was meant to sample the fauna living in the sediments covering the seafloor. This instrument is similar to a box dredge or deep sea anchor dredge. It was first tested in 1961 in the Bay of Marseille.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

Albanian

spirancë pluskuese. (various references)

Danish

drivanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Dutch

stopzak (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), sleepzak (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), zeeanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), drijfanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Finnish

meriankkuri (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), laahusankkuri (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), ajoankkuri (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

French

drogue, ancre flottante. (various references)

German

Seeanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), Schwimmanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), Treibanker (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), Lenzsack (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Greek 

πλωτή άγκυρα (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Hungarian

viharhorgony, úszóhorgony (drogue). (various references)

Italian

ancora galleggiante (drogue), � ncora idrodinamica (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), � ncora galleggiante (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Manx

aker varrey (sheet anchor). (various references)

Pig Latin

easay anchoray

Portuguese

drogue (drag anchor, drogue, droll, floating anchor), âncora flutuante (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor), âncora de capa. (various references)

Russian 

плавучий якорь (drogue, sea-anchor, water-anchor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavlačno sidro. (various references)

Spanish

ancla flotante (drag anchor, drogue, floating anchor). (various references)

Swedish

drivankare (drogue). (various references)

Thai

สมอเรือ. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: anarchs, anchors, archons, choanae, choreas, coarsen, corneas, hoarsen, narcose, oraches, ranches, ranchos, roaches, senhora.

-3 letters: acorns, ahorse, anarch, anchor, anears, arcane, arches, archon, arecas, arenas, arseno, ashcan, ashore, caesar, caners, canoes, casern, censor, charas, chares, chaser, choana, chorea, chores, chosen, coarse, cornea, cosher, cranes, crones, encash, eschar, hances, herons, hoarse, honers, nachas, naches, nachos, nacres, narcos, nosher, oceans, ochers, ochrea, ochres, orache, racons, rances, rancho, reason, recons, search, senhor, senora, shoran.

-4 letters: aches, acnes, acorn, acres, aeons, anear, anoas, ansae, areas, areca, arena, arose, arson, ashen, caner, canes, canoe, canso, cares, carns, carse, ceros, chaos, chare, chars, chase, chore, chose, cones, cores, corns, corse, crane, crash, crone, earns, echos, escar, haars, hance, hansa, hanse, hares, hears, herns, heron, heros, hoars, hoers, honer, hones, horas, horns, horse, hosen, nacho, nacre, narco, narcs, nares, nears, ocean, ocher, ochre, ocrea, onces, orach, orcas, races, racon, rance, ranch, reach, recon, rheas, roach, roans, sacra, saner, saran, scare, scena, scone, score, scorn, senor, serac, share, sharn, shear, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, snare, snore, sonar.

-5 letters: aahs, aces, ache, acne, acre, aeon, aero, anas, anes, anoa, ansa, arch, arco, arcs, area, ares, arse, asea, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, casa, case, cash, cero, chao, char, chon, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, cosh, each, earn, ears, echo, eons, eras, erns, eros, haar, haen, haes, hare, hear, hens, hern, hero, hers, hoar, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, hora, horn, hose, naos, narc, near, noes, nose, nosh, oars, ocas, once, ones, orca, orcs, ores, osar, race, rase, rash, recs, resh, rhea, rhos, roan, rocs, roes, rose, sane, scan, scar, sear, sera, shea, shoe, soar, sone, sora, sore, sorn.

+1 letter: anchorages.

+2 letters: anthracnose, archdeacons.

+3 letters: anthracnoses, archdiocesan, chaperonages, elasmobranch.

+4 letters: aeromechanics, archegoniates, elasmobranchs, noncharacters, prosencephala, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies.

+5 letters: apocryphalness, archdeaconries, authenticators, cinematographs, encephalograms, hepatopancreas, monosaccharide, oceanographers, oceanographies, parenchymatous.

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