anchor chain
Heavy nautical linkage
An anchor chain is the heavy metal chain connecting a ship's anchor to the vessel.
The chain's weight helps the anchor hold by pulling horizontally along the seabed rather than upward.
Anchor chains are measured in lengths called shots or shackles.
The term occasionally appears figuratively for anything that keeps someone or something fixed in place.
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- linksThings that connect
- rustIron oxide coating
iron · windlass · hull · deck · seabed · weight · heavy metal · rattle · clank · hawse · shackle · fathom · cable · drop · haul · locker · galvanized · drag
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- Boating Gearbilge pump, boat hook, bow light, bow line, cleat
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- ship partshull, keel, deck, mast, bow
- shipyard equipmentdry dock, floating dock, propeller, rudder, davit