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anchorholds

anchorholds is the plural of anchorhold.

Meaning of anchorhold

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
  3. (figuratively) Firm hold; security.

Questions about anchorholds

What is anchorholds the plural of?
Anchorholds is the plural of anchorhold.

Words near anchorholds in the dictionary

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

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