ANCHOR    船錨

TOOL FOR FIXING THE PLACE:position of a SHIP AND BINDING it to the BOTTOM of the WATER. 
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the metal anchor is máo 錨 and the first account of a metal anchor máo 錨 is in 天工開物.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 COMM 30. 碇，木帆船停泊時，拋於岸上或沉落水中以穩定船身的大石；是最早出現的靠泊工具。 ?? ，一種木石結合的木爪石碇，出現時間最晚不下於西漢初年。 錨，船不靠碼頭和不繫浮筒停泊時用以固定船位的器具，一般鐵製，一頭有鉤爪，另一頭用鐵鏈連在船上，拋到水底，可以使船停穩；五代之前已經出現。 木椗，明清兩代的船用定泊工具一大類（另一類為鐵錨），選用優質木料，去石，以木為主體結構。
Modern Chinese Criteria
錨 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • TOOL　ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 10.89

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no 13

    • Words (3 items)

    錨  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    1. The standard word for the metal anchor is máo 錨 and the first account of a metal anchor máo 錨 is in 天工開物.

      Syntactic words
    • nanchor
    矴  dìng OC: teeŋs MC: teŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nmost current form of dìng 碇
    矴  dìng OC: teeŋs MC: teŋ 0 Attributions

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      Syntactic words
    • NPSANGUOZHI: anchor