† anchor-stockv.
Nautical. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To work and arrange (the planks on the side of a ship) anchor stock fashion (see anchor stock fashion n. and adv. at anchor stock n. Compounds).Quot. 1892 refers to the construction of a pontoon used to refloat a ship that has run aground.
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anchor-stock1805
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 81 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..should only be used where particular strength is required, as in the spirkettings under the ports, &c.
1892 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 26 Jan. 5/3 All the framing of the structure is anchor-stocked, and the planking has been edge bolted every 30 inches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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