a heavy object attached to a cable or chain and used to moor a ship to the sea bottom, typically having a metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes at one end
the boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildly
an anchor chain
an anchorman or anchorwoman
he signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor
moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor
the ship was anchored in the lee of the island
we anchored in the harbour