DROP ANCHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drop anchor mean? 

• DROP ANCHOR (verb)
  The verb DROP ANCHOR has 1 sense:

1. secure a vessel with an anchor

  Familiarity information: DROP ANCHOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROP ANCHOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secure a vessel with an anchor

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

anchor; cast anchor; drop anchor

Context example:

We anchored at Baltimore

Hypernyms (to "drop anchor" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)