| 释义 |
a-weigh, advb. phr. Naut.|əˈweɪ|
[a prep.1 + weigh.]
Of an anchor: Just raised perpendicularly from the ground; = a-peak, a-trip. (Said loosely also of the vessel or its crew.)
1627[see away 2]. 1670Dryden Tempest i. i, Trinc. Is the Anchor a Peek? Steph. Is a weigh! is a weigh. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxvii. 230 He'll as soon heave up the peak of Teneriff, as bring his anchor aweigh. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 320 ‘We are a-weigh,’ sung out the skipper. |