SHEET ANCHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheet anchor mean? 

• SHEET ANCHOR (noun)
  The noun SHEET ANCHOR has 1 sense:

1. spare anchor for use in emergency

  Familiarity information: SHEET ANCHOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEET ANCHOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spare anchor for use in emergency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sheet anchor; waist anchor

Hypernyms ("sheet anchor" is a kind of...):

anchor; ground tackle (a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving)

 Context examples 

With the same good fighting man he served at the Nile, where the men of his command sponged and rammed and trained until, when the last tricolour had come down, they hove up the sheet anchor and fell dead asleep upon the top of each other under the capstan bars.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)