drop anchor

1. 1.

   secure a vessel with an anchor

   “We anchored at Baltimore”

   Synonymsanchorcast anchor

   Broaderfasten

Questions about drop anchor

What does drop anchor mean?

drop anchor means "secure a vessel with an anchor".

What is another word for drop anchor?

Close synonyms include anchor, cast anchor. 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 drop anchor a common word?

drop anchor 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.