"anchorhold" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1893, Emily Sarah Holt, “Chapter Five. Warned”, in One Snowy Night, Reprint edition (Historical Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:",
          "text": "Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, […]",
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          "ref": "1763, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:",
          "text": "The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay",
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          "ref": "1910, Captain Walter Biggs, Drake's Great Armada, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2006:",
          "text": "[…] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]",
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        "The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds."
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        "Firm hold; security."
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        "(figurative) Firm hold; security."
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