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disanchor, v.|dɪˈsæŋkə(r)|
Also 5–7 dis-, dysa(u)ncre, 6–7 disan(c)kar, -er.
[a. OF. desancre-r, f. des-, dis- 4 + ancrer to anchor, f. ancre anchor n.1]
1. trans. To loosen (a ship) from its anchorage; to weigh the anchor of.
c1477Caxton Jason 56 Thene the good patrone..disancred the noble shippe and went again to the see. 1481― Godfrey 189 They shold disancre theyr shippes and flee. 1600Holland Livy xxxi. vii. 776 After he is disankered once..& under saile from Corinth. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy v. xxxix. 116 Sixe Gallies they Disanker from the Isle.
fig.a1871Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle's Lett. (1883) II. 346 note, Miserable feature of London life, needing to be dis-anchored every year, to be made comparatively a nomadic, quasi-Calmuck life.
2. intr. To weigh anchor: said of a ship or its crew.
a1470Tiptoft Cæsar iii. (1530) 3 He dysauncred & departed about thre of the clocke. c1477Caxton Jason 38 She went to the ship that sholde disancre for to go to Athenes. 1595Drake Voy. (Hakluyt Soc.) 9 The enemie labored to cause us to disankar. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 644 [They] were commanded..to disanchor, and to depart from those places. 18..Southey (F. Hall).
Hence disˈanchoring vbl. n.
1851Carlyle Sterling ii. vi. (1872) 138 We need not dwell at too much length on the foreign journeys, disanchorings, and nomadic vicissitudes of household, which occupy his few remaining years. |