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English
Etymology
From anchor + hold.
Noun
anchorhold (countable and uncountable, plural anchorholds)
- The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
1893, Emily Sarah Holt, “Chapter Five. Warned”, in One Snowy Night, Reprint edition (Historical Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009: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, […]
- The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds.
1763, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay
1910, Captain Walter Biggs, Drake's Great Armada, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2006:[…] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]
- (figurative) Firm hold; security.
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