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English
Etymology
From dis- + anchor: compare French désancrer.
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Verb
disanchor (third-person singular simple present disanchors, present participle disanchoring, simple past and past participle disanchored)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
1600, Robert Cawdry, A Treasure or store-house of similies:Euen Mariners, which are called with the course and force of winds, being in an Hauen, wil not disanchor, nor depart out of the Hauen, without a prosperous wind
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