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sheet anchor
noun
- Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- a final reliance or resource, as when in danger.
sheet anchor
noun
- nautical a large strong anchor for use in emergency
- a person or thing to be relied upon in an emergency
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sheet anchor1
First recorded in 1485–95
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sheet anchor1
C17: from earlier shute anker, from shoot (obsolete) the sheet of a sail
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Example Sentences
We have trusted to it as to the sheet-anchor of our safety, in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe.
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The Germans regarded him and his humane doctrine as their sheet-anchor of safety.
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But a considerable number of the latter had served for years on board of men-of-war, and a few were sheet-anchor men.
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But in "all the changes and chances of this mortal life" this household had a sure sheet anchor on which to depend.
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To this famous theory, which became the sheet-anchor of the empirical school, Stewart is not altogether opposed.
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