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What (who) is sheet anchor - definition
DEVICE TO CONNECT ELEMENTS TO TRANSFER LOADS AND SHEAR FORCES
Wedge anchor; Expanding bolt; Concrete anchor; Anchor rod; Expansion bolt; Expansion anchor; Wall anchor; Fountain bolt; Bold-down bolt; Projection bolt; Chemical anchor; Bonded anchor; Adhesive anchor; Tapcon
sheet anchor
LIST OF DEFINITIONS OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS USED IN MARITIME DISCIPLINES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER S
Trick (nautical term); Nautical term; U.N.P.O.C.; U.n.p.o.c; UNPOC; U N P O C; U. N. P. O. C.; Trices; Triced; Tricing; Midships; Spotting top; Trick (nautrical term); Upbound; Military mast; Yard number; Packetman; Way (vessel); Way (ship); Sheet anchor; Quartering sea; Overtaking sea; User:Onetwothreeip/Glossary of nautical terms (S); On the beach (nautical); Glossary of nautical terms (S); Vessel of opportunity; Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z)
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1. an additional anchor for use in emergencies.
2. a dependable person or thing relied upon in the last resort.
Origin
C15: perh. related to obs. shot, denoting two cables spliced together, later influenced by sheet2.
Sheet anchor
LIST OF DEFINITIONS OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS USED IN MARITIME DISCIPLINES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER S
Trick (nautical term); Nautical term; U.N.P.O.C.; U.n.p.o.c; UNPOC; U N P O C; U. N. P. O. C.; Trices; Triced; Tricing; Midships; Spotting top; Trick (nautrical term); Upbound; Military mast; Yard number; Packetman; Way (vessel); Way (ship); Sheet anchor; Quartering sea; Overtaking sea; User:Onetwothreeip/Glossary of nautical terms (S); On the beach (nautical); Glossary of nautical terms (S); Vessel of opportunity; Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z)
·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
II. Sheet anchor ·vt A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel;
- called also waist anchor. ·see the Note under Anchor.
The Anchor, Bankside
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PUB IN BANKSIDE, LONDON
The Anchor Bankside; Anchor Bankside
The Anchor is a pub in the London Borough of Southwark. It is in the Bankside locality on the south bank of the River Thames, close to Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station.
Wikipedia
Anchor bolt
Anchor bolts are used to connect structural and non-structural elements to concrete. The connection can be made by a variety of different components: anchor bolts (also named fasteners), steel plates, or stiffeners. Anchor bolts transfer different types of load: tension forces and shear forces.
A connection between structural elements can be represented by steel columns attached to a reinforced concrete foundation. A common case of a non-structural element attached to a structural one is the connection between a facade system and a reinforced concrete wall.
Examples of use of sheet anchor
1. He said we believe that economic strength is the sheet anchor of national power and provides room for manoeuvre on military, political, diplomatic and internal security fronts.
2. He said, «I have no hesitation to acknowledge this fact that despite trials and tribulations during last fifty years it proved as a sheet anchor at the time of serious political crisis in the country.» President Supreme Court Bar Association Justice (Retd) Malik Muhammad Qayyum, Vice Chairman,Pakistan Bar Council,Ali Ahmed Kurd, Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan Ms.
3. Squadrons of pollsters and flotillas of BBC editors regularly consider the problem, but somewhere between the seminars and the newsroom falls the shadow. (How did they spend the first 20 minutes of their flagship "serious" 10 o‘clock news bulletin on the Michael Jackson verdict?) The mighty BBC news machine dominates not just in sheer volume, but as a sheet–anchor of authority in the rudderless anarchy of what is or isn‘t "news". Other media seize on the agenda chosen by the Today programme, Breakfast or the World at One, watching how the story is angled on the six and the 10.