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Nautical| 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. |
| 4. | vertically. |
| 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).] |
