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a⋅weigh

  [uh-wey]
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–adjective Nautical.
(of an anchor) just free of the bottom; atrip: Anchors aweigh!
Origin:
1620–30; a- 1 + weigh 2
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a·weigh   (ə-wā')   
adj.   Nautical
Hanging clear of the bottom. Used of an anchor.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Aweigh

A*weigh"\, adv. [Pref. a- + weigh.] (Naut.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. --Totten.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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