up-anchor
Example Sentences
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“We’d better not leave this here spot until we see ’em up-anchor and get well away,” advised Jake.
From Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by W. (William) Rainey
There seemed nothing for it but to up-anchor, and to sea again in my shirt.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
They watched the barges up-anchor, and before we began to jerk into line I could hear their conversation.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
Signal to Squadron A to up-anchor at once and telephone to Squadron B to do the same.
From The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith
He is my friend; so, the long and the short of it is, I’m going to up-anchor, away to the gold-fields, and leave the coast clear to him.”
From The Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
