ancoral

Adjective

anchoral (comparative more anchoral, superlative most anchoral)

1. Resembling or having the character of an anchor.
   • Various points settled, we hove anchor, or rather hauled up the block of granite doing anchoral duty, and, with the usual hubbub and strife, the orders which every man gives and the advice which no man takes, we paddled in half an hour to a shingly and grassy creek defended by a sand-pit and backed...1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, page 341