anchored

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of anchor.

   The crew anchored the vessel in the sheltered bay before the storm.

   Heavy chains anchored the platform to the seabed.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and participle: the crew anchored, the ship has anchored, the platform was anchored. Anchor can take an object or stand alone, so the form appears both ways. They anchored the boat, and they anchored in the bay. It also reaches beyond ships, as in a presenter who anchored the broadcast, or a friend who anchored someone through distress.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having the ends turned back so that they resemble the flukes of an anchor.

   The family arms display a cross anchored on a crimson field.

   Heralds blazoned the banner with an anchored saltire.

   Note

   Heraldry lets this adjective stand on either side of its noun: an anchored cross and a cross anchored name the same design, the second following the word order of formal blazon. The French ancrée does the same job. Its close neighbors are moline and sarcelly, whose arms also turn back at the ends. It is an absolute description, so nothing is more or less anchored.

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