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Catboat vs Anchorage - What's the difference?

catboat | anchorage |

As a noun catboat

is a sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in new england and later adapted for racing and cruising catboats can be recognized by a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.

As a proper noun anchorage is

a large coastal city in alaska.

catboat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. Catboats can be recognized by a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.
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    Synonyms

    * Una boat

    anchorage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.US FM 55-15 TRANSPORTATION REFERENCE DATA; 9 June 1886 .
  • (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
    • (Johnson)
  • That into which something is anchored or fastened.
    • the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
  • The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
  • The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
  • (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (fee for anchoring) cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

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