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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the bluffs the silent salmon-fishers awaited their prey, and down the river with paddles apeak drifted the bark canoes of Cayuses and Umatillas.

From The Log School-House on the Columbia by Butterworth, Hezekiah

With anchor apeak, topsails jerked aloft and flattened, the schooner took the wind.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell

At daylight the Dido was apeak, under all sails, and by eight o’clock, was leading down the north channel with skysails set for Old England.

From The Wreck on the Andamans by Darvall, Joseph

The anchor’s apeak, and we’re off for the ould country, and a murrain on this land of yours!”

From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines