anchorage

See also: Anchorage

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anchorage (countable and uncountable, plural anchorages)

(nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
(nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
Anchorage is five pounds a night outside the harbour.
That into which something is anchored or fastened.
the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
(medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
- 1866, Augusta Webster, transl., 'The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus, page 66, lines 1001–1002:
  And yet 'twas by such braggart vaunts as these
  Thou broughtst thee to this woeful anchorage.
The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
(figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

place for anchoring

Bulgarian: котвостоянка (kotvostojanka)
Czech: kotviště (cs) n
Danish: ankerplads c
Dutch: rede (nl), ree (nl), ankerplaats (nl) f
Esperanto: ankrejo
Faroese: akkerspláss, skipalega
Finnish: ankkuripaikka (fi)
French: ancrage (fr) m
Galician: ancoradoiro (gl) m
Georgian: საღუზე (saɣuze)
German: Ankerplatz (de) m
Greek: ελλιμενισμός (el) m (ellimenismós), αγκυροβόλημα (el) n (agkyrovólima), αραξοβόλι (el) n (araxovóli), άραγμα (el) n (áragma)
Ancient: ναύσταθμον n (naústathmon)
Hebrew: מעגן (he) m (ma'agan)
Hungarian: horgonyzóhely (hu)
Icelandic: skipalægi n, bátalægi n, lægi n, skipalega f
Irish: acarsóid f, ancaireacht f, leaba ancaire f, poll ancaire m
Italian: ancoraggio (it) m
Latin: statio (la) f
Macedonian: сидриште n (sidrište)
Maori: tauranga, taunga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ankerplass m, ankringsplass m

Nynorsk: ankerplass m, ankringsplass m
Ottoman Turkish: مرسی (mersa)
Persian: لنگرگاه (fa) (langargâh)
Polish: kotwicowisko (pl) n
Portuguese: ancoradouro (pt) m, ancoragem f, fundeadouro m
Russian: я́корная стоя́нка f (jákornaja stojánka)
Scottish Gaelic: acarsaid f
Spanish: fondeadero (es) m, anclaje (es) m
Swedish: ankarplats (sv) c
Welsh: angorfa f
Yámana: tīnia

fee for anchoring

that to which something is anchored