英语词汇“a、peak”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

a-peak

释义

a-peak, adv. (a.) Naut.|əˈpiːk|
Forms: 6–7 a-pike, 7– a-peek, 8– a-peak.
[a. Fr. à pic vertically; in naval lang. ‘le bâtiment est à pic sur son ancre’ vertically over its anchor; f. à ‘to, at, according to’ + pic ‘vertex, summit’: see peak, pike.]
1. In a vertical position; vertical.
a. ‘A ship drawn directly over the anchor is apeek; when the forestay and cable form a line, it is short stay apeek; when in a line with the main stay, long stay apeek. The anchor is apeek when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.’ Adm. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867.
1596Sir F. Vere Comm. 30 By reason of my riding with my Anchor a pike.1627Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 38 Is the Anchor a pike, that is, to heaue the Hawse of the ship right ouer the Anchor.1670Dryden Tempest i. i, Come, Bullies, chear up! heave lustily. The Anchor's a Peek.1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 172 The resolution, to order all their anchors to be heaved a-peak.1812M. Edgeworth Manœuvring iii, The anchor a-peak, and the sails ready for dropping.
b. fig.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1812) I. 14 He's going, the land crabs will have him; his anchor's a-peak.
c. ‘yards apeek: when they are topped, so as to resemble St. Andrew's cross; it is done as a token of mourning, or for convenience.’ Adm. Smyth.
1692in Smith's Seaman's Gram. xvi. 80 To Ride a Peek, is when the Yards are so ordered, that they seem to make the Figure of St. Andrews Cross.
d. oars apeak: held vertically.
[1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 306 Setting their Oares on pike.]1870Sund. at Home 281 (Burial of Mr. Peabody) The ‘Leyden’..steamed slowly..up the harbour, followed by the boats, the men with oars apeak.

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