Synonyms:
anchorage, anchorage_ground
Meaning: place for vessels to anchor
Synonyms:
Anchorage
Meaning: a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"
Synonyms:
anchorage
Meaning: a fee for anchoring
Synonyms:
anchorage
Meaning: the condition of being secured to a base; "the plant needs a firm anchorage"; "the mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family"
Usage examples
They had just taken refuge in the anchorage of Portland--a sign of bad weather expected and danger out at sea.
Both were to be carried along with us for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage.
In that snug anchorage he found his fleet awaiting him--the four ships which had been separated in that gale off the Lesser Antilles, and some seven hundred men composing their crews.
The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.
I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.