anchor chain
anchor rope

Above his head stretched a few yards more of greasy anchor chain.

Not even a shackle of anchor chain to weight the corpse down.

The anchor chain broke and her rudder was beaten off.

Draw the end of the anchor chain through the buoy.

In half a minute he released the anchor chain and ran on down the corridor, meeting no resistance now.

Within seconds, the anchor chain was pulled up from the depths.

At 20:30 the anchor chain broke in a Force 9 storm.

By the end of 1998 there had been several unsuccessful attempts to attract the required national anchor chains.

Instead, he had returned to the deck by way of the anchor chain.

If you was to bar the channel with anchor chain I don't say they wouldn't cut it clear somehow.