anchor chains
Heavy vessel cables
Anchor chains are the heavy metal links connecting a ship's anchor to the vessel.
The chain's weight helps the anchor lie flat on the seabed for better holding, and its length allows the anchor to pull horizontally rather than upward.
Anchor chains are measured in shots—ninety-foot lengths joined together.
The phrase also appears figuratively for anything that weighs someone down or keeps them fixed in place.
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- cargo shipVessel for transporting goods
- naval vesselArmed military ship
- nauticalOf ships and sailing
links · rust · iron · heavy · dead weight · deck · winch · harbor · seabed · ocean floor · rattling · galvanized · shackle · hawse · windlass · steel · cable · fathom
- naval equipmentaircraft carrier, aircraft carriers, carriers, battleship, battleships
- offshore rigsderrick, drill rig, drill bit, drawworks, wellhead
- beach soundswaves, crashing waves, wave crash, surf, seagulls
- harbor thingswharf, dock, pier, quay, lighthouse
- historic docklandsquayside, dry docks, lock gates, warehouse district
- intertidal zonetide pool, tide pools, rock pool, rockpool, rockpools
anchor chainsanchor lines
Ropes holding boats stationary
anchor rope · anchor line · mooring lines · hawsers · dock lines
anchor chainssails
Wind-catching boat fabric
propellers · engines · oars · rudders · outboard motors
anchor, chains, anchors, anchored, anchoring, anchorage, chain, chained, chaining