apeak

== English == === Alternative forms === apeek === Etymology === From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈpiːk/ === Adverb === apeak (not comparable) (nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it. a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy": Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163: 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. === Anagrams === akepa