anchoral
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ancorālis, from Latin ancora (“anchor”). Equivalent to anchor + -al.
Adjective
[edit]anchoral (comparative more anchoral, superlative most anchoral)
- Resembling or having the character of an anchor.
- 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, page 341:
- Various points settled, we hove anchor, or rather hauled up the block of granite doing anchoral duty, and, with the usual hubbub and strife, the orders which every man gives and the advice which no man takes, we paddled in half an hour to a shingly and grassy creek defended by a sand-pit and backed by a few tall massive trees.
- 2016, Dan Cluchey, The Life of the World to Come, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 143:
- Love may be a planet. It may be something ancoral, something firm and steady and muzzled by its own gravity.
References
[edit]- “anchoral, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “ancoral, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
