"anchor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At 17:20hrs cleared port anchor - starboard anchor weighed.
- Sails were unfurled, the anchor weighed, and mooring lines cast off.
- Hardly was the boat out of sight, when the captain came forward and ordered the anchor weighed; he was going to sea.
- Blade ordered the anchor weighed and made ready to receive whatever message the pirates wanted to send.
- Sails were being run up, lines fastened in place, and anchors weighed.
- Only one of those remaining had managed to get all her sails up and her anchor weighed, but she was floundering in dead air and smoke.
- Cutwood weighed no more than fifty or sixty pounds, and the anchor weighed two hundred.
- The two ship's stockless anchors weighed five tons each.
- He shifted a little with the roll of the ship, whose sails had been unfurled, the anchor weighed.
- Each anchor weighed 30,000 pounds and was connected to the ship by wire rope cables 2 inches in diameter and 7,000 feet in total length.
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