sheet anchor

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   spare anchor for use in emergency

   Synonymswaist anchor

   Broaderanchor

Questions about sheet anchor

What does sheet anchor mean?

sheet anchor means "spare anchor for use in emergency".

What is another word for sheet anchor?

Close synonyms include waist anchor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sheet anchor a common word?

sheet anchor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.