anchor rope

1. 1.

   the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel

   Synonymsanchor chain

   Broaderchain

Questions about anchor rope

What does anchor rope mean?

anchor rope means "the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel".

What is another word for anchor rope?

Close synonyms include anchor chain. 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 rope a common word?

anchor rope 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.