sheet anchor
waist anchor

And when the last of the wine was gone we fell back on an ample supply of the sailor's sheet anchor - grog.

I suppose I was really throwing out a sheet anchor of my own to be sure no one expected me to perform miracles.

Hostages to the future and in sense my only sheet anchor.

"Perhaps if we let the starboard sheet anchor down as a counterweight?"

"She was the sheet anchor of his morality and the visionary spirit behind his highest political ideals."

They released a sheet anchor, which held for two hours, when the ship again began to drive towards shore.

The remaining wickets added only another 57, though Nurse - the sheet anchor - battled away until he was ninth out for 70.

Lady Swarland is our sheet anchor; she helps us out each year with a subscription to put us on our feet again.

It was the perfect academic discipline gained in his early life, the sheet anchor of his artistic credo, which facilitated these easy renderings.

The euro must become a catalyst and a sheet anchor for the continuing unification of Europe.