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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… which the CABLE is fastened and at the other two arms or FLUKEs. The third part is the removable ANCHOR STOCK. Anchors …
Calendar of Border Papers
… Vardes, Ourdes, Wallisses, Stories, Armestronges, Dunnes, Flukes. Scotland; gentlemen.Humes, Trotters, Bromfeilds, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to endeavour to weigh my bower anchors. Part of the flukes of our sheet anchor is broken. I am afraid you have …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… got our buoy rope into our hawse, thinking to weigh our flukes, but that broke also, and we afterwards swept, but …