ankkuri.
anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)
Meaning & usage
anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)
anchor (any of various instruments serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor)
anchor (something that serves to provide a fixing point)
anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (main host of a television or radio program relating to the broadcast of news)
anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (final runner in relay race)
anchor (metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together)
armature (rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo in an electromagnetic apparatus)
plunger (moving portion of a solenoid)
anchor (superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area)
anchor (the main part of an anchor escapement)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Old Swedish [Term?] (whence Swedish ancker, a variant of ankare; compare Old Swedish ankæri, ankar; perhaps adapted with -uri), ultimately from Old Norse akkeri, from Proto-Germanic *ankurô, itself ultimately from Latin ancora.
an obsolete Finnish unit of measurement for volume of liquid substances, equal to around 39 litres
small barrel, keg
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Swedish ankare, ultimately from Medieval Latin ancria.
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