mushroom anchor

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   an anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls

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Questions about mushroom anchor

What does mushroom anchor mean?

mushroom anchor means "an anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls".

Is mushroom anchor a common word?

mushroom 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.