anchor-stock

1) A bar at the upper end of an anchor, at right angles to the shank, designed so that one or other of the arms strikes into the ground.

1527-37 Item iij new anker Stokkes, Hull

1697-8 the vessell was ... furnished with an Anchor stock and stocking, York.

places York Hull
dates 1527-1537 1697-1698

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