Other forms: anchorages
An anchorage is a place where ships can safely lie at anchor. A sheltered anchorage, find an anchorage, a poor anchorage.
It needs shelter from the weather, a bottom the anchor will hold in and room to swing as the wind shifts, and charts mark the good ones. The word also means the fee paid for using one, and in engineering it is the point a cable is fixed to.
1nounanchorageA place where ships can safely lie at anchor.
“The fishing boats waited in the anchorage outside the harbour until the storm passed.”
anchorage is a place.
Middle English
anker
English
anchor
English, today
anchorage
From anchor + -age. anchor comes from Middle English anker. From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα. The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin - spelling anchora. a doublet of ancora and anker and angora and Ankara.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA