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Meanings of waist anchor in English

Catalan
àncora de salvació

Spare anchor for use in emergency.

        àncora de salvació
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        Examples for "sheet anchor"
        Examples for "sheet anchor"
        1
        Her love was a sheet anchor which held in the stormiest seas.
        Authors and Friends
        2
        One lives at the East-end, and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia.
        The Long Vacation
        3
        For moral authority at that conjuncture was the sheet anchor of the principal delegates.
        The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
        4
        His caprices remain the sheet anchor of the would-be virtuoso.
        A Popular History of the Art of Music / From the Earliest Times ...
        5
        The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
        The Three Midshipmen
        Translations for waist anchor