Anchorage

1. n. Abode of an anchoret.
2. n. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
3. n. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
4. n. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
5. n. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
6. n. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
7. n. A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.