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Definition of Anchor chain
1. Noun. The chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anchor Chain
Literary usage of Anchor chain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"... mark, or otherwise calculated to lead persons to suppose that the anchor,
chain cable, or other chain or cable has been proved in accordance with this ..."
2. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1904)
"Suppose, in the Manhattan Bridge, that we cut an anchor chain and that we made
the horizontal component of the stress in the anchor chain, H, ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"The four great anchor plates being set in position at the bottom of the masonry,
each with the first double ninefold link of its anchor chain made fast ..."
4. The Sloops of the Hudson: An Historical Sketch of the Packet and Market by William Edward Verplanck, Moses Wakeman Collyer, George Davis Woolsey (1908)
"They took their large anchor and chain in the small boat, and the anchor, chain,
boat and men all went to the bottom. In the year 1877, the new terminal of ..."
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