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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Anchor [ancre; ancher] A common alternative spelling is ANKER. An appliance for holding a ship etc. fixed in a … c880 Found described as OLD Found made of IRON See also ANKER, FLUKE. Sources: Acts, Inventories (early), Inventories … References: Dillon (2002, pb 2003), Pemberton (1746). Anker [anchor; anchor] An uncommon northern European measure …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and usually used for RHENISH WINE; equivalent to 4-4.5 ANKER. OED earliest date of use: 1526 Found used for WINE …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1933. Fire Services Act, 10 & 11 Geo. VI, c. 41; F. H. Anker, 'Fire Fighting From a Vauxhall', Cake & Cockhorse, i …
A Dictionary of London
… taken at his death (Lond. I. p.m. I. 191). There was an Anker's cell within the precincts. The special privileges …
Calendar of Border Papers
… leaving them on the main sea without either sail or "anker." They landed about Bambroughe, and having nothing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface is level, and is intersected by the river Anker and the Coventry canal. On the north-east the parish is …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… 89. 67.) Ship Seized. 1601, Nov. 4. Report of Henrick van Anker, of Hamburg, merchant, made to Sir Robert Mansell, 4 …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Whistle of gold set with 5 diamonds, 5 rubies, and 1 small anker of gold with an anker of diamond, 100 l. One book of gold set with mean …