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STREAM ANCHOR

Specialty Definition: STREAM ANCHOR

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

One or more anchors carried in addition to the main, or bower, anchors and usually stowed aft. A kedge may be dropped while the ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat, to enable the ship to be winched off if aground, or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: STREAM ANCHOR

Language Translations for "STREAM ANCHOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

varpeanker (kedge, kedge anchor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

werpanker (kedge, kedge anchor), keganker (kedge, kedge anchor), hulpanker (kedge, kedge anchor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varppiankkuri (kedge, kedge anchor), varppausankkuri (kedge, kedge anchor). (various references)

   

French

  

ancre jet. (various references)

   

German

  

Stromanker (kedge, kedge anchor), Wurfanker (kedge, kedge anchor), Warpanker (kedge, kedge anchor), Verholanker (kedge, kedge anchor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισχάδα (kedge, kedge anchor), υπόπρυμνοσ άγκυρα, άγκυρα (anchor, Ankara). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ancorotto (kedge). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamstray anchoray

   

Portuguese

  

ancorote (kedge, kedge anchor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

anclote (kedge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STREAM ANCHOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-m-n-o-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: marathoners.

-2 letters: macerators, marathoner.

-3 letters: achromats, anchorets, anthraces, atheromas, chromates, cremators, emanators, macerator, marathons, merchants, orchestra, rancheros, romancers, sacrament, stomacher, trachomas.

-4 letters: achromat, aerators, ancestor, anchoret, antrorse, atheroma, camorras, catarrhs, caterans, chanters, chantors, charmers, charters, choreman, chromate, creators, cremator, earthman, emanator, enactors, horsecar, horseman, manchets, marathon, marchers, marchesa, marranos, matchers, menorahs, merchant, monarchs, monstera.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-m-n-o-r-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: archaeoastronomy, cinematographers.

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

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