anchor
noun
[ ˈaŋkə ]
• 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.
• "the boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildly"
• an anchorman or anchorwoman.
• "he signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor"
anchor
verb
• moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor.
• "the ship was anchored in the lee of the island"
• present and coordinate (a television or radio programme).
• "she anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s"
Origin:
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.
at anchor
• (of a ship) moored by means of an anchor.
• "thirty ships lay at anchor here the day before"
