Definition of "anchor" []

• Nautical A heavy object attached to a vessel by a cable or rope and cast overboard to keep the vessel in place either by its weight or by its flukes, which grip the bottom. (noun)
• A rigid point of support, as for securing a rope. (noun)
• A source of security or stability. (noun)
• Sports An athlete, usually the strongest member of a team, who performs the last stage of a relay race or other competition. (noun)
• Sports The person at the end of a tug-of-war team. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "KAHN: Fatima�Renteria says she's never heard the term anchor baby before."
• "Maybe the term anchor would be better applied to the right-wingers who stay angry all the time and keep us stuck in the squalid port of stagnation and division, rather than allowing us to move out to the bright and sunny wide open sea of progress and care for others."
• "With the setting "At Top of Structure", the label anchor point will be at the top of the structure."