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Cast Anchor (To)

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To throw out the anchor in order to bring the vessel to a standstill. (Latin, anchoram jacĕre.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cassandra
Cassation
Cassi
Cassibelan
Cassio (in Shakespeare’s Othello)
Cassiopeia [the lady in the chair]
Cassiterides
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Cast Accounts (To)
Cast Anchor (To)
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