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Pee   /pi/   Listen
noun
Pea  n.  (Written also pee)  The sliding weight on a steelyard.


Peak  n.  
1.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak."
2.
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. "Silent upon a peak in Darien."
3.
(Naut.)
(a)
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
(b)
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(c)
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. (In the last sense written also pea and pee)
Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.


Pee  n.  See 1st Pea.


Pee  n.  
1.
(Naut.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
2.
Urine.
3.
The act of urinating; used in the informal take a pee, meaning, to urinate.


verb
pee  v. i.  To urinate. (informal)





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"Pee" Quotes from Famous Books



... cousas estando a alma assentada ['a] mesa & o anjo junto com ella em pee, vem os doutores com quatro bacios de cosinha cubertos cantando Vexila regis prodeunt*. E postos na mesa, Sancto ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente
... family!—you have heard of my father probably—he belongs to one of the best stocks in Carolina—owns a large interest in this wharf, and is an extensive cotton-broker, factors, we call them here—and he owns a large plantation of niggers on Pee-Dee; you must visit our plantation. Captain, certain! before you leave the city. But you mustn't pay much attention to the gossip you'll hear about the city. I pledge you my honor, sir, it don't amount to any thing, nor has it any prominent place ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams
... enough, as he clearly proved what Mr. Weller Senior called "a alleybi." Evidently Mr. PEA has a double, and "as like as two Peas" is peculiarly applicable in this case. For if the other one isn't a Pea, he has been taken for one by the Pee-lers. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 9th, 1892 • Various
... Baluches I had taken my last look; with the Jesuits of the French Mission I had exchanged farewells, and before me beamed the sun of promise as he sped towards the Occident. Loveliness glowed around me. I saw fertile fields, riant vegetation, strange trees—I heard the cry of cricket and pee-wit, and sibilant sound of many insects, all of which seemed to tell me, "At last you are started." What could I do but lift my face toward the pure-glowing sky, and cry, ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... waved him aside with his flaring torch, and up trotted the blue-and-gold conductor with his little silver white-light with a frosted flue. "Why didn't you stop at Pee-Wee Junction?" he hissed. ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman


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