n. anchor whose function is to holdfast to the seabottom; shcet-anchor錨；大錨。 △3H.VI.5.4.3:“What though the mast be now blownoverboard,/ The cable broke,the holding-anchor lost,/ And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?”盡管現(xiàn)在船桅被風(fēng)刮到海里，纜繩斷了，鐵錨丟失，我們的一半水手都被海水吞沒(méi)，那又怎么樣？