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ˈanchor-stock
[anchor n.1 + stock.]
a. A bar which crosses the top of an anchor, at right angles to the shank, and also to the plane of the arms, the use of which is to cause one or other arm to strike the ground.
c1302Pipe Roll 30 Ed. I. lm. 2 b In vj Anchoris, vj ankerstokes. 1346–1688 [see stock n.1 24 a]. 1825H. Gascoigne Nav. Fame, An anchor-stock in ready halves they find, To fit the rudder head now well inclin'd.
b. Comb. anchor-stock fashion (see quot. 1867). Hence also anchor-stock v.
c1850Rudim. Nav. (Weale), To anchor-stock, To work planks in a manner resembling the stocks of anchors, by fashioning them in a tapering form from the middle, and working or fixing them over each other, so that the broad or middle part of one plank shall be immediately above or below the butts or ends of two others. This method..is..used where particular strength is required, as in the spirketings under ports. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 40 Anchor-stock fashion, the method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks being broadest in the middle, and tapered to the ends, they resemble an anchor-stock. |