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Definition of Anchorless
1. a. Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Definition of Anchorless
1. Adjective. Lacking an anchor; adrift ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anchorless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anchorless
Literary usage of Anchorless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sailing directions from Point Lynas to Liverpool by Henry Mangles Denham (1840)
"... (ENE) view N. And should you be if anchorless, anchorless, 'Tranmere Bight,'
just south of Birken- head Point, affords a flat mud layer. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"And so we float, rudderless and anchorless, on the sea of speculation.1 The
difficulty of determining the authentic work of Kyd makes any general estimate ..."
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