BOWER ANCHOR

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	One of the anchors carried on each bow and designated as port bower and starboard bower. They are the main anchors by which a ship rides. Two of them are always in readiness for immediate use, one being shackled to the port and the other to the starboard cable. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Bower Anchor An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. There are two: one called the best bower, and the other the small bower. (To rhyme with flower.) "Starboard being the best bower, and port the small bower."- Smyth: Sailor's Word-book. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: BOWER ANCHOR

Language		Translations for "BOWER ANCHOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		bovanker (bower). (various references)

Dutch		boeganker (bower), stopanker (bower), plechtanker (bower). (various references)

Finnish		keula-ankkuri (bower). (various references)

French		ancre de bossoir (bower), ancre d'avant (bower). (various references)

German		Buganker (bower, hinged stocked anchor, hinged stockless anchor). (various references)

Greek		υπόπρωρος άγκυρα (bower), επωτίδιος άγκυρα (bower), άγκυρα της πλώρης (bower). (various references)

Italian		� ncora di prua (bower), � ncora di posta (bower). (various references)

Manx		aker hoshee. (various references)

Pig Latin		owerbay anchoray

Portuguese		âncora da leva (bower), âncora da amura (bower). (various references)

Spanish		ancla principal (bower), ancla de leva (Bower). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BOWER ANCHOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-n-o-o-r-r-w"
	-3 letters: broacher, careworn, ranchero, rebranch, roorbach.
	-4 letters: bracero, brechan, broncho, browner, cornrow, coronae, coroner, cowbane, cowherb, crooner, crowbar, crowner, honorer, rancher, recrown.
	-5 letters: anchor, archer, archon, barren, barrow, beacon, borane, borrow, bracer, branch, brawer, breach, broach, broche, bronco, brooch, carbon, charro, chawer, chorea, corban, cornea, corner, corona, crower, harbor, harrow, narrow, ochone, ochrea, orache.
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Specialty Definition: BOWER ANCHOR