单词 | unanchor |
释义 | unˈanchor, v. [un-2 4 b. Cf. Du. ontankeren.] trans. To loose from anchor.
1648Hexham ii, Ontanckert, un-anckred, or, the Ancker wound up. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 193 Whose Cable Pietie vn-Anchored, Yet fixt her vessell steddie, in the Bed Of many waters meeting. 1847De Quincey Span. Mil. Nun Wks. 1854 III. 10 Now, then, through three-fourths of an hour Kate will have free elbow-room for unanchoring her boat. refl. and absol.1878Dallinger in Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. XXVII. 337 [It attaches] itself to one of the springing forms, which at once unanchors itself, and both together swim freely and vigorously about. [1878Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 511/2 It soon comes in contact with a colony of the organism in the perfectly flagellate condition, attaches itself to one of them, which soon unanchors, and both swim away.] |

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