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Sheet anchor   Listen
noun
Sheet anchor  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
2.
Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.





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"Sheet anchor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ's, and Christ is God's.' 'Who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good?' The New Testament is committed to the same conviction as that to which the faith of Old Testament saints clung as the sheet anchor of ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... captain. "Make ready to slip!" The sails were loosened; but as they were about to be sheeted home, the cable parted. Instantly the sheet anchor was let go. For some seconds it seemed doubtful, before it could reach the bottom, whether the ship would strike on the rocks; but it happily brought her up, though ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... tempest, and all around us appeared awfully dangerous. Self-examination is at all times profitable and incumbent on the Christian, but when dangers press around him in a tumultuous scene of waters, it is peculiarly consolatory for him to find upon examination, that the sheet anchor of his hope is well grounded; and that he has laboured in the cause of his divine Lord with a conscious integrity, though with a conscious imperfection of character. It was well said by the wife of a Missionary, in her last moments, when it ...
— The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America • John West
... That sheet anchor of the Neapolitan Monarchy was destroyed before long by one of those compromises with rebellion so frequent in these days— disastrous proceedings, which inevitably lead the way by their evil and demoralising example, to other compromises, infinitely ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville


Words linked to "Sheet anchor" :   anchor, ground tackle, waist anchor


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