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a-trip, advb. phr. Naut.|əˈtrɪp|
[f. a prep.1 + trip: as if ‘on the trip, starting, ready.’]
1. Of yards: Swayed up, ready to have the stops cut for crossing. Of sails: Hoisted from the cap, sheeted home, and ready for trimming. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867.
1626G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xi. 228 Then hoise their Yards a trip, and all their sailes. 1726Penhallow Ind. Wars (1859) 53 They got their mainsail atrip.
2. Of an anchor: Just raised perpendicularly from the ground in weighing.
1796Dibdin Poor Jack, From the moment the anchor's atrip. 1849W. Irving Columbus III. 68 One ship, with anchor atrip and sails unfurled, waited to receive Nicuesa. |