To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
To stop; to fix or rest.
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
an anchored cross