Usually means: Secure attachment point for stability.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word anchorage:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchorage, anchorage: Merriam-Webster
  2. Anchorage, anchorage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Anchorage, anchorage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anchorage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Anchorage, anchorage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anchorage, anchorage: Wordnik
  7. Anchorage, anchorage: Wiktionary
  8. anchorage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anchorage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. anchorage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Anchorage: Dictionary.com
  12. Anchorage (Alaska Railroad station), Anchorage (disambiguation), Anchorage (maritime), Anchorage (orthodontics), Anchorage (shipping), Anchorage (song), Anchorage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Anchorage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. anchorage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. anchorage: Rhymezone
  16. Anchorage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. anchorage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. anchorage: FreeDictionary.org
  19. anchorage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Anchorage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. anchorage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. anchorage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. anchorage: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Anchorage (disambiguation), anchorage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anchorage (disambiguation), anchorage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchorage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Anchorage (disambiguation), anchorage: Medical dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ANCHORAGE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See anchorages as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
noun:  (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
noun:  That into which something is anchored or fastened.
noun:  (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
noun:  The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
noun:  The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
noun:  The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
noun:  (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
noun:  A large coastal city in Alaska.

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