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atrip
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Word definitions for atrip in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atrip \A*trip"\, adv. [Pref. a- + trip.] (Naut.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor. Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails. Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.
Usage examples of atrip.
Fielding had it almost atrip - and let the breeze and the turning tide carry the ship out while it was being run up.
And then the one with her topsail atrip, that they are making such a cock of trimming -Judas Priest, what a Hornchurch fair!
I begged Mr Lloyd for a boat, a small boat, but he declared that it was as much as his skin was worth to suffer me to go without an order from you, adding, with an inhuman leer, that he thought the Commodore would have anchors atrip before the ebb.