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anchorage (n.)
mid-14c., "toll or charge for anchoring" (see
anchor
(v.) +
-age
. Meaning "act of dropping anchor, being at anchor" is from 1610s; that of "place suitable for anchoring" is from 1706. The Alaska city of
Anchorage
was founded 1914.
