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Brewer's: Shoe the Anchor
(To). To cover the flukes of an anchor with a broad triangular piece of plank, in order that the anchor may have a stronger hold in soft ground. The French have the same phrase: ensoler l'ancre.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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