anchor light

1. 1.

   a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor

   Synonymsriding lightriding lamp

   Broaderlight

Questions about anchor light

What does anchor light mean?

anchor light means "a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor".

What is another word for anchor light?

Close synonyms include riding light, riding lamp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anchor light a common word?

anchor light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.