apeak

American  

[uh-peek] / əˈpik /

Or apeek

adjective

1. more or less vertical.

2. (of a dropped anchor) as nearly vertical as possible without being free of the bottom.

3. (of an anchored vessel) having the anchor cable as nearly vertical as possible without freeing the anchor.

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adverb

1. vertically.

apeak British  

/ əˈpiːk /

adverb

1. nautical in a vertical or almost vertical position

   with the oars apeak

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Etymology

Origin of apeak

First recorded in 1590–1600; a- ¹ + peak ¹

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Example Sentences

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apeak

Where Cabots speak only to Lowells, And the Lowells apeak only to God.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dutch, without any faint-heartedness, raised one anchor, and placed the other apeak, in order to go to meet our fleet.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

"Anchor's apeak, lad, and the hatches down," said the stranger, in the peculiar drawling voice which the New Englanders had retained from their ancestors, the English Puritans.

From The Refugees by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Break our starboard-bower out, apeak, awash, and clear.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

Break our starboard bower out, apeak, awash, and clear.

From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling

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