sheet anchor
Example Sentences
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Yet, Jane — Tomalin calls her “the true heroine of this story” — remained the sheet anchor of his life, as well as his typist.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021
In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them "a sheet anchor against inflation."
From Time Magazine Archive
After getting the sheet anchor to the bows, and the broken one in-board, we weighed and made sail to windward, in search of a good anchorage.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
We then let go the sheet anchor and gave her two cables on that also, but she would not look at it.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
