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Apeak   Listen
adverb
Apeak  adv., adj.  (Spelt also apeek)  (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.






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"Apeak" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the 18th June, the weather being somewhat fair, we endeavoured to weigh our anchor; but when it was right apeak, the cable gave way, though a new one, never before wetted, by which we lost our anchor. Just at this time the Unicorn fired a gun, on which I sent immediately to know what was amiss, and was informed she had sprung a great leak, by which all her men were tired out with ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr



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