quarantine anchorage

noun

1. an anchorage for ships awaiting a pratique.

Example Sentences

The steamer had stopped in the offing to pick up a pilot, and was already slinking in between the harbour head-lights to the quarantine anchorage.

From Project Gutenberg

The dark, low-lying, grim-looking fort, which presides over the quarantine anchorage, is built upon a natural ledge of rock, half a mile from the shore of the town, and looks like a huge cheese-box.

From Project Gutenberg