ANCHORAGE

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Traducere în limba română

anchorage substantiv

1. (mar.) ancoraj; aruncarea ancorei; ancorare.

2. (mar.) loc de ancorare.

3. (mar.) taxă de ancorare.

4. (contr.) cablu de ancorare.

5. fixare, întărire, consolidare, îmbinare.

6. (fig.) sprijin, suport, reazim; liman.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The sun was within so few degrees of setting that already the shadow of the pines upon the western shore began to reach right across the anchorage and fall in patterns on the deck.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The last flood had lifted her, and had there been much wind or a strong tide current, as in the southern anchorage, we should never have found her more, or found her stranded beyond help.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was pretty far down on the low, sandy spit that encloses the anchorage to the east, and is joined at half-water to Skeleton Island; and now, as I rose to my feet, I saw, some distance further down the spit and rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock, pretty high, and peculiarly white in colour.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was to go down the sandy spit that divides the anchorage on the east from the open sea, find the white rock I had observed last evening, and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben Gunn had hidden his boat, a thing quite worth doing, as I still believe.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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