Anchor
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A measure containing ten gallons
The instrument used by which a vessel or other body is held.
See The Lady Franklin, 2 Low. 220, Fed. Cas. No. 7,9S4; Walsh v. Dock Co., 77 N. Y. 448; Reid v. Ins. Co., 19 Hun (N. Y.) 284.
An Anchor Watch is one kept by a reduced number of men on a vessel in port or at anchor; The Lady Franklin, 2 Low. 220, Fed. Cas. No. 7,9S4; it may consist of one man on deck; The Rival, 1 Sprague 128, Fed. Cas. No. 11,867.