anchour

Inglés

anchour
pronunciación	falta agregar

Del latín ancora.

Singular	Plural
anchour	anchours

Ejemplo:
A wicked man beaten out of earthly comforts, is as a naked man in a ſtorme, and an unarmed man in the field, or a ſhip toſſed in the ſea without an Anchour, which preſently daſheth upon rocks, or falleth upon quickſands.John Trapp. Solomonis Panaretos. 1650.

Ejemplo:
The Spaniards report that the Duke, when thoſe Fire‐ſhips approached, commanded the whole Fleet to weigh Anchour and ſtand to Sea ; yet ſo as, having avoided the Danger, every Ship ſhould return to his former Station.William Camden. The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth Late Queen of England ; Containing All the Most Important and Remarkable Passages of State, Both at Home and Abroad (so Far as They Were Linked with English Affairs) During Her Long and Properous Reign. Written by William Camden,... The Fourth Edition, Revised and Compared with the Original, Whereby Many Gross Faults are Amended, Several Periods Before Omitted are Added in Their Due Places,... with a New Alphabetical Index of All the Principal Things Contained in the History. 1688.

Ejemplo:
Shee is now rigged, and trimmed, and ready to hoyſe Sayle ; your Maieſties fauour will be vnto it both like a pleaſant gale of wind in the Poupe, to make it beare Sayle, and like a wel‐fenced docke and ſecure hauen of tranquilitie, where ſhe may ride at Anchour in a Halcedonian calme, and ſhoote off her Ordinance againſt the Criticall Pirates and malignant Zoiles that ſcowre the ſurging Sea of this vaſte Vniuerſe.Thomas Coryate. Coryat's Crudities. 1776.