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Apeak   Listen
adverb
Apeak  adv., adj.  (Spelt also apeek)  (Naut.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.






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"Apeak" Quotes from Famous Books



... Walk her round. Break, ah break it out o' that! Break our starboard bower out, apeak, awash, and clear. Port—port she casts, with the harbour-roil beneath her foot, And that's the last o' bottom we ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling



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