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We may be anchored to gold, but if we are we have got not ananchorchain, but a piece of elastic.
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He quoted three items, the radar only working when kicked, theanchorchainjammed, a ship going round in circles for three hours.
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Only theanchorchain, windlass and cement barrels were found.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her first two salvos did nothing more than sever ananchorchain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At 11 pm she anchored, but at 1.30 am on the 26th the portanchorchainsnapped, followed by the starboard chain an hour later.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They found heranchorchainintact and paid out to a length of.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In order to ease the strain on her remaining portanchorchain, she started her engines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He developed a technique for quickly clearing scrub by connecting a heavyanchorchainbetween two bulldozers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is also an interesting example of contact art depicting a two-masted sailing ship withanchorchainand a dinghy trailing behind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As theanchorchainbroke, the ship ran aground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While playing out the portanchorchainto 95 fathoms and making precautionary preparations to abandon ship, the minelayer collided with a net tender broadside to port.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On that day, a sanitary tank which collected runoff from the torpedo room,anchorchainlocker, and anchor engine room was scheduled for a routine cleaning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An anchor windlass is a machine that restrains and manipulates theanchorchainon a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised and lowered by means of chain cable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lightship would display a chronic inability to hold its station in future years, even after its singleanchorchainwas supplemented with second and third anchors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Generally, the ship uses one of its own anchor chains to make fast to the buoy.
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Her bow sits upright draped with anchor chains.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The last tsunami broke the side-wheeler gunboat's anchor chains and drove her ashore almost 500 yards inland from the normal high-water mark.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While she was anchored, conditions deteriorated to a point where both anchor chains parted.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the very front were the chain lockers for the huge anchor chains and ballast tanks to adjust the ship's trim.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.