/əˈpiːk/
OriginFrom French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.
- not-comparableIn a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
“Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.”
“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.”
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