Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin "ancora", which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ("ankura").
Anchor windlass
NOTE: Anchor cable is not the same as anchor chain (see above). Cable is a heavy rope made by laying up three ordinary ropes which have themselves been made by laying up three strands. Whereas in ordinary rope, known as hawser laid rope, the three strands are laid up from left to right, in cable-laid rope the three hawser ropes must be laid up from right to left.