Anchor ring
(def 2a).
Historical Examples
That day, they set to work at cutting through the great chain that was fast to the anchor ring.
McClure’s Magazine, Vol. XXXI, September 1908, No. 5 Various
noun
a ring made from an iron bar of circular cross-section
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