Just free of the sea bottom

Usage examples of aweigh.

The band used up its repertoire, and was beginning again on Anchors Aweigh, when all the cohorts of Johnson, John Jay, and Furnald reached their places.

Willie played the closing bars of Anchors Aweigh fortissimo, banged the piano shut, and ran out.

The anchor was "aweigh", meaning it was off the bottom, when in effect it was being weighed by the cable.

More scraping from Harris's fiddle, more clanking of the pawls, more encouraging calls to the men from Southwick, which Ramage could hear quite clearly, and then the master's hail that the cable was "up and down", which meant that the anchor was just about to lift off the bottom, and, a few clanks later, the report: "Anchor is aweigh, sir.

A rattan cracked across a man's shoulders, and from forward came the call, "Anchor's aweigh!

White-coated boys were still passing drinks and huddled Navy officers were bawling "Anchors Aweigh," for their team had won.

Bolitho had to jump clear as the foresail was broken free and started to billow into the wind, only to be knocked aside again as Pyke yelled, `Anchor's aweigh, sir!