to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel

At home he read too many papers. He was better off without his daily dose of world botheration, sham happenings, without newspaper phrases.

1984: Claudius Oluyemi Olaniyan, The Composition and Performance Techniques of Dùndún-Sèkèrè Music of South-Western Nigeria, main title (Queen’s University)

They caught him after a couple of miscatches and falls in the grass and dirt.