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anchorage

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Definition:
A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow—the last rays, I remember, falling through a glade of the wood and shining bright as jewels on the flowery mantle of the wreck.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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Seen from the anchorage or from a mile or so up the Bosporus, it is by far the handsomest city we have seen.

Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad (1869)
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