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Atrip

Atrip \A*trip"\, adv. [Pref. a- + trip.] (Naut.)

  1. Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

  2. Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

  3. Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

Wiktionary
atrip

a. 1 (context nautical of an anchor English) Just clear of the ground. 2 (context nautical of sails English) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming. 3 (context nautical of yards English) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across.

WordNet
atrip

adj. of an anchor; just clear of the bottom [syn: aweigh]

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.