Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A toll paid for casting ship’s anchor in port.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English law. A prestation or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be no anchor. Hale, de Jure Mae, pt. 2, c. 6. See 1 W. Bl. 413 et seq.; 4 Term. 262.