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anchor   
andrisa ~ [Provincial] the anchor of a ship. See vatofantsika.
nanga ~ an anchor. See andrisa, vatofantsika. [swa. Nanga.]
vatofantsika ~ (vato fantsika) an anchor, lit. a fixing stone, probably so called because a stone was the primitive form of anchor ~ an anchor

anchor (to)   
miantsona ~ to be aground, to stop, to strike, to run ashore, as a canoe. ~ to come to harbor, to anchor