Usually means: Lift anchor to start sailing.
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  1. weigh anchor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weigh anchor: Merriam-Webster
  3. weigh anchor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weigh anchor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. weigh anchor: Vocabulary.com
  6. weigh anchor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. weigh anchor: Wiktionary
  8. weigh anchor: Dictionary.com
  9. Weigh anchor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. weigh anchor: Rhymezone
  11. Weigh Anchor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. weigh anchor: FreeDictionary.org
  13. weigh anchor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Weigh Anchor: The Word Detective
  15. weigh anchor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. weigh anchor: Legal dictionary

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  1. weigh anchor: Encyclopedia

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (weigh anchor)

▸ verb:  (nautical) To raise the anchor of a ship or boat prior to getting under way.

Similar:
anchor, weigh, cast anchor, lay an anchor to the windward, cast, reanchor, embark, make ship, turn up, stand, more...

Phrases:
weigh the anchor, to weigh anchor, more...

Adjectives:
tail, atrip, abox, large, cast, in, taken aback, back, spring, hawse, home

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Similar:
anchor, weigh, cast anchor, lay an anchor to the windward, cast, reanchor, embark, make ship, turn up, stand, more...

Phrases:
weigh the anchor, to weigh anchor, more...

Adjectives:
tail, atrip, abox, large, cast, in, taken aback, back, spring, hawse, home



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