Meanings of foul anchor in inglés

On one of his broad arms he had a crucifix, and on the other, the sign of the '' foul anchor.''

A young sailor, with an anchor handsomely traced on the back of his hand-a foul anchor-andperhaps other naval insignia on his wrists and breast.

He glanced at the design on his arm, an eagle clutching a fouled anchor.

Nor would they be returning to assist the unfortunate ogre ship with the fouled anchor.

They fell strangely silent as Avery opened the carriage door with the crest of the fouled anchor on it.

They were in their fifties and beefy with beer muscle and one had a fouled anchor tattoo on his forearm.

The landlord of the ' Foul Anchor,' at least, acted in his proper person, whoever might have been the aged seaman?

I've gone down, with a coral-rock to sink me, in a hundred and ten feet to clear a fouled anchor.

Yovell came back, holding the familiar canvas envelope with its Admiralty fouled anchor, to dispel any lingering hope he might have had.

The carriage door bore the fouled anchors of Admiralty, and there was a sea officer standing beside it, speaking with Sillitoe's secretary.

As Wilder approached the " Foul Anchor," he beheld every symptom of some powerful excitement existing within the bosom of the hitherto peaceful town.

"What certainty is it," interrupted the landlord of the " Foul Anchor" most inopportunely, "that the good-man has absconded?

"God bless the royal lady!" returned he of the foul anchors and gay shawl, while the swift ferry-boat continued to dash ahead.

"It is droll enough, truly, to see the landlord of the ' Foul Anchor' dumb-foundered," returned the old man, with perfect composure in mien and eye.