See sheet anchor on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From shoot and anchor.",
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"text": "The Ship having thus depth of water again, and come into a place of some convenient anchourage, our first anchour not holding us, we let fall our sheet anchour […]",
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"ref": "1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, page 10:",
"text": "By Noon the Sea went very high indeed, and our Ship rid Forecastle in, shipp’d several Seas, and we thought once or twice our Anchor had come home; upon which our Master order’d out the Sheet Anchor; so that we rode with two Anchors a-Head, and the Cables vered out to the better End.",
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"text": "1691, Ezekiel Hopkins, An Exposition of the Ten Commandments, with Other Sermons, London: Nathanael Ranew, “The Ninth Commandment,” p. 62,\nAnd doubtless when other Arguments have been baffled by a Temptation, this hath been a Sheet Anchor to the Soul, and hath often held it in the greatest Storms, when the Wind and Waves have beat most furiously against it."
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"ref": "1872, Mark Twain, chapter 14, in Roughing It, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 115:",
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"ref": "1955, Samuel Beckett, translated by Patrick Bowles and Samuel Beckett, Molloy, New York: Grove Press, Part 2, pp. 171-172:",
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"text": "1971, Nelson Mandela, letter to the wife of fellow-prisoner Mac Maharaj dated 1 February, 1971, in Sahm Venter (ed.), The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela, New York: Liveright, 2018,\nIt is the prettiest portrait of her that I’ve seen. Its message is clear & unambiguous: Darling I’m the centre of the universe; sheet anchor of all your dreams!"
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},
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"ref": "1762, Tobias Smollett, chapter 18, in The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 124:",
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},
{
"text": "1971, Nelson Mandela, letter to the wife of fellow-prisoner Mac Maharaj dated 1 February, 1971, in Sahm Venter (ed.), The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela, New York: Liveright, 2018,\nIt is the prettiest portrait of her that I’ve seen. Its message is clear & unambiguous: Darling I’m the centre of the universe; sheet anchor of all your dreams!"
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"roman": "rezervna kotva",
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"word": "спаси́тельный я́корь"
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