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anchorhold

anchorhold noun: the residence of an anchorite or anchoress.

Noun

anchorhold (countable and uncountable, plural anchorholds)

  1. The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
    • Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, […]1893, Emily Sarah Holt, “Chapter Five. Warned”, in One Snowy Night, Reprint edition (Historical Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009
  2. The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds.
    • The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay1763, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca
    • […] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]1910, Captain Walter Biggs, Drake's Great Armada, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2006
  3. (figuratively) Firm hold; security.

Forms of anchorhold

pluralanchorholds

Origin of anchorhold

From anchor + hold.

Questions about anchorhold

What does anchorhold mean?
Anchorhold means the residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
What part of speech is anchorhold?
Anchorhold is a noun.
What is the plural of anchorhold?
The plural of anchorhold is anchorholds.

Words near anchorhold in the dictionary

  1. anchoretical
  2. anchoretically
  3. anchoretish
  4. anchoretism
  5. anchorets
  6. anchorhold
  7. anchorholds
  8. anchorin
  9. anchoring
  10. anchoring effect
  11. anchoring effects

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