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

Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

He was not sure yet that she purposely avoided him, and he was sure that she had smiled when they met, and that one fact was his sheet anchor just now.

From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)

To a sheet anchor a stout hempen cable is generally bent, as lightening the strain at the bow, and being more elastic.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir