Anchor-lining

The short pieces of plank, or of board, fastened to the sides of the ship or to stanchions under the fore-channel to prevent the bill of the anchor from wounding the ship's side when fishing the anchor.

To Anchor Stock. To work planks in a manner resembling the stocks of anchors, by fashioning them in a tapering form from the middle and working or fixing them over each other so that the broad or middle part of one plank shall be immediately above or below the butts or ends of two others. This method, as it occasions a great consumption of wood, is only used where particular strength is required, as in the spirkettings under ports, etc.