anchor ***
cast anchor
drop anchor

If the "Terror" was there, she had cast anchor behind the rocks.

Here the captain cast anchor and, making fast to the shore, put out the landing planks.

Scores of small boats passed to and fro, or had cast anchor in the river.

There they cast anchor for the first time since the beginning of the voyage.

Then they resumed navigating, and finally came to cast anchor in this bay.

After some weeks the vessel cast anchor before a large town, and the merchant's son went on shore.

We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot.

"We can never cast anchor for a single day on the ocean of the ages."

Next morning, we cast anchor off the Island.

"And this Captain is not going to cast anchor at all since the tide will suffice?"