sheet anchor

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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

He showed me that my drawings—the one sketch, at any rate, which I held sacred—would prove my sheet anchor when I was brought into the stormy waters of inquest and law courts.

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis

As soon as the best bower cable was nearly out, the sheet anchor and small bower were let go at the same moment, and the result was to be ascertained.

From Percival Keene by Marryat, Frederick

But Tom knew that I had taken the will; that I had deprived him of his sheet anchor.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Optic, Oliver