anchor fluke

It then slowly moved northward as the anchor flukes would catch, hold momentarily, then be lifted loose by the twenty-foot swells.

I twisted in the seat to see that there were a dozen or so boats moored in the protected crook of the easternmost anchor fluke.

In foggy conditions, the steamboat passed under the bowsprit of the ship, and the ship's anchor flukes caught in the steamer's upper works, tearing them up.

He glanced around, saw dark hangings on the walls, weird shapes worked upon them - curves and squares, pyramids, swastikas, a repetitive symbol like an anchor fluke.

They felt the altered motion of the hull as the anchor flukes broke out of the mud bottom, and the ship came alive to begin her struggle with the raging elements.

Hal ordered the foresail spread for a moment to give the ship way tobreak out the anchor flukes from the sandy bottom, then furled the sailagain as she came up hard.

NOAA Command-at-Sea Insignia is a gold-colored pin consisting of a triangle superimposed on anchor flukes and an unfurled commissioning pennant showing six triangles.

I found an embedded rock and dug die anchor flukes hard in behind it, tugged the chain to persuade myself it would hold, then sat down and tipped the water out of Lincoln's rubber boots.

But the anchor flukes had been so imbedded in the sand by the repeated jerks of the cable, that without a windlass it was impossible to detach it, even with the tackle which Wilson had improvised.