Crossword clues for apeak
apeak
- Anchor position
- Vertical, as an anchor cable
- Vertical, nautically
- In a vertical direction, nautically
- Vertically positioned
- Vertical, while sailing
- Vertical, to a sailor
- Vertical, more or less
- Vertical position
- Straight up and down, nautically
- Raised, as oars
- More or less vertical
- In a vertical position, at sea
- In a vertical position, as an anchor
- In a vertical line: Naut
- In a straight up position
- As vertical as possible, as an embedded anchor
- More or less vertical, to a sailor
- Vertically, to a sailor
- Vertically, in nautical talk
- Vertical, at sea
- More or less vertical, at sea
- In vertical position at sea
- " . . . ___ in Darien": Keats
- In a vertical position: Naut.
- Approximately vertical, at sea
- Nearly vertical, as an anchor
- In a vertical position: Naut
- Oar position
- "Silent, upon ___ in Darien": Keats
- In a vertical line, as oars
- " . . . upon ___ in Darien"
- In a vertical line, at sea
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apeak \A*peak"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + peak. Cf. F. [`a] pic vertically.] (Naut.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]
Wiktionary
adv. (context nautical of an anchor English) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
Usage examples of "apeak".
When I landed with my trade-goods, leaving my steering sweep apeak, Otoo left his stroke position and came into the stern-sheets, where a Winchester lay ready to hand under a flap of canvas.
With these thoughts, he urged his men to put their strength to the work, and in a few minutes the anchor was apeak, and the vessel under sail.
My anchor is short stay apeak, and I shall be under sail in half an hour.