anchor ***
cast anchor
drop anchor

She dropped anchor to avoid running over her men in the water.

"We want them to drop anchor with us five or more years."

"Should we drop anchor and wait for the storm to clear?"

Everybody just hang cool or whatever while I drop anchor.

But the weather was so bad that he decided to drop anchor.

Then we dropped anchor in about four feet of water.

When I give the word, stop all engines and drop anchor.

Every night it is easy to find a place along the bank to drop anchor.

We were out there half an hour after the ship dropped anchor.

We'd actually had the sense to drop anchor, because we weren't happy about being that close in.