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dis- +‎ anchor: compare French désancrer.

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disanchor (third-person singular simple present disanchors, present participle disanchoring, simple past and past participle disanchored)

  1. (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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