- weigh anchor
- {v. phr.} To set sail; get going. * /After a week in Hawaii, we weighed anchor and sailed south toward Tahiti./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
weigh anchor
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Weigh anchor — is a nautical term indicating the final preparation of a sea vessel for getting underway. Weighing anchor literally means raising the anchor of the vessel from the sea floor and pulling it up to the side of the vessel after the engines have been… … Wikipedia
weigh anchor — ► weigh anchor Nautical take up the anchor when ready to sail. Main Entry: ↑weigh … English terms dictionary
weigh anchor — verb heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑weigh the anchor • Hypernyms: ↑heave, ↑heave up, ↑heft, ↑heft up • Verb Frames … Useful english dictionary
weigh anchor Nautical — take up the anchor when ready to sail. → weigh … English new terms dictionary
weigh anchor — Synonyms and related words: board, break ground, cast away, cast loose, cast off, cat the anchor, detach, disengage, doff, drop the mooring, embark, embus, emplane, enplane, entrain, free, go aboard, go on board, go on shipboard, liberate, loose … Moby Thesaurus
weigh anchor — {v. phr.} To set sail; get going. * /After a week in Hawaii, we weighed anchor and sailed south toward Tahiti./ … Dictionary of American idioms
weigh anchor — verb to raise the anchor from the seabed prior to getting under way … Wiktionary
weigh\ anchor — v. phr. To set sail; get going. After a week in Hawaii, we weighed anchor and sailed south toward Tahiti … Словарь американских идиом
weigh anchor — v. lift an anchor in getting ready for sailing … English contemporary dictionary
weigh anchor — to lift the anchor of a ship from the water in order to start sailing … English dictionary
