Assertion: anchor | /r/HasProperty | nautical
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text: As nouns the difference between anchor and moor is that anchor is (nautical) a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement while moor is an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
text: As nouns the difference between anchor and anchorage is that anchor is (nautical) a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement while anchorage is (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 .