anchoral

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or having the character of an anchor.
    — Various points settled, we hove anchor, or rather hauled up the block of granite doing anchoral duty, and, with the usual hubbub and strife, the orders which every man gives and the advice which no man takes, we paddled in half an hour to a shingly and grassy creek defended by a sand-pit and backed by a few tall massive trees.

词形变化

more anchoral comparative most anchoral superlative ancoral alternative

词源

Borrowed from Latin ancorālis, from Latin ancora (“anchor”). Equivalent to anchor + -al.
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