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apeak

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5 lettersPronunciation /əˈpiːk/Sorted aaekpStarts with AEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.

Word origin

From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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