anchor buoy

American  

noun

1. a buoy used to indicate the location of an underwater anchor.

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Example Sentences

White thatch bobbing like an anchor buoy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 69, strode off into the middle of another conservation fight�this one to save Kentucky's Red River Gorge from the Army Corps of Engineers, which proposed to dam up the river at that point.

From Time Magazine Archive

He got into a rowboat brought by an attendant, and tied the plane to an anchor buoy.

From Project Gutenberg

One version is that Foley, in the Goliath, who led the British line, owed the suggestion to a keen-eyed middy who pointed out that the anchor buoy of the headmost French ship was at such a distance from the ship itself as to prove there was room to pass.

From Project Gutenberg

When on his way to the ship the next morning for the chronometer, King was informed that the Discovery's cutter had been stolen; it had been moored to the anchor buoy.

From Project Gutenberg

The little creature thus described sometimes propelled itself with great activity, with a curious rolling motion, by the lashing of the front cilium, while the second cilium trailed behind; sometimes it anchored itself by the hinder cilium and was spun round by the working of the other, its motions resembling those of an anchor buoy in a heavy sea.

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