waist anchor

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   spare anchor for use in emergency

   Synonymssheet anchor

   Broaderanchor

Questions about waist anchor

What does waist anchor mean?

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

What is another word for waist anchor?

Close synonyms include sheet 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 waist anchor a common word?

waist 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.