Anchor Word Meaning

Old English ancor, ancra, via Latin from Greek ankura; reinforced in Middle English by Old French ancre. The current form is from anchora, an erroneous Latin spelling. The verb (from Old French ancrer) dates from Middle English

a heavy object attached to a cable or chain and used to moor a ship to the sea bottom, typically having a metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes at one end

heavy object for mooring ship

• the boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildly
• an anchor chain

an anchorman or anchorwoman

anchorman/woman

• he signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor

moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor

moor ship with anchor

• the ship was anchored in the lee of the island
• we anchored in the harbour

present and coordinate (a television or radio programme)

present programme

• she anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s