apeak

English

From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.

apeak (not comparable)

(nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
- a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy":
  Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163:
  I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind.

单词	apeak
释义	apeak English Alternative forms apeek Etymology From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco. Pronunciation IPA^(key): /əˈpiːk/ Adverb apeak (not comparable) (nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it. a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy": Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163: I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind. Anagrams akepa
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