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† ˈpredy, a. Naut. Obs.
[Deriv. obscure: most writers have associated it in some way with ready.
(The suggestion has been made that the p was developed out of the word of command ‘Make the ship ready’ (cf. quot. 1626). This is not impossible; though it assumes the identity of the vowel sound in ready and predy, which is not proved.)]
Prepared for action, ready.
1625in J. S. Corbett Fighting Instruct. (1905) 69 That the hold in every ship should be rummaged and made predy especially by the ship's sides. c1626N. Boteler Dialogues about Sea Services (1685) 283 When a Ship is to be made ready for a Fight, the Word of Command is, make the Ship Predy, or make Predy the Ordnance. And a Predy Ship is when all her Decks are cleared, and her Guns and all her small Shot, and everything of that Nature, well fitted for a Fight: And likewise to make the Hold Predy is to bestow everything handsomly there, and to remove any⁓thing that may be troublesome. Hence1706in Phillips.
So † ˈpredy v. Obs., to make ready.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 38 Predy, or make ready to set saile. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Predy the Ship, or Predy the Ordnance, is as much as to make Things ready for a Fight. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Predy, or Priddy, a word formerly used in our ships for ‘get ready’; as ‘Predy the main-deck’, or get it clear. |