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a⋅peak

[uh-peek] Nautical
–adjective
1. more or less vertical.
2. (of a dropped anchor) as nearly vertical as possible without being free of the bottom.
3. (of an anchored vessel) having the anchor cable as nearly vertical as possible without freeing the anchor.
–adverb
4. vertically.
Also, a⋅peek.


Origin:
1590–1600; a- 1 + peak 1
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a·peak   (ə-pēk')   
adv.   & adj. Nautical
In a vertical or almost vertical position or direction: rowers holding their oars apeak.

[Alteration of apike, probably from French à pic : à, to (from Old French a, from Latin ad-; see ad-) + pic, peak (from Old French).]
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