单词 | aweigh |
释义 | † aweighv. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To move (someone or something) by lifting up or carrying away, esp. to carry off, remove. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > take up and remove aweighOE to cart off or awayc1440 exportc1485 hoistc1550 deportate1599 hoisea1616 deporta1641 liftc1650 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 352 Se ælmihtiga hælend næs gefered, ne awegen, ac he þurhferde þa rodorlican heofonan þurh his agenre mihte. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 19 Ad ginciuas.., þæt ys on ure þeodum þæt flæsc, ðe abute þa teþ wuxt and þa teþ aweȝð and astyreþ. c1500 (?a1475) Lament. Sinner in Anglia (1911) 34 293 All-wey with them I ame aweyde [c1550 Rawl. wayvyde]..this world hath me deseyvede. b. transitive. With out or up reinforcing the sense of removal or lifting.In quot. a1200: to support.The use with up has been alternatively interpreted as showing a compound verb (cf. up- prefix 3a). ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 215 Het ða delfan his byrgene wið ðam weofode, & þæt greot ut awegan. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xvi. 213 Seo mycelnes þæs stanclifes, þe hi aweg don woldon, færinga wearð upp awegen fram þam mannum, þe hit ymb wunnon. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 181 Ðe fet up aweigeð [the belly]. 2. transitive. To weigh (something). Also figurative: to consider, ponder, examine (cf. weigh v.1 11, 12). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > ascertain the weight of [verb (transitive)] weighc1000 aweighOE peisea1382 poise1458 ponder?1518 pound1570 tron1609 perpenda1612 librate1623 scale1691 weight1734 OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxiii. 16 Abraham þa awæh feower hund scyllinga be fullan gewihte seolfres, & sealde Effrone. OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 88 Syððan hig [sc. boceras] þa word aginnað to aweganne mid þam biwordum. OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxiv. 190 Labia inprudentium stulta narrabunt, uerba autem prudentium statera ponderabuntur : weleras unsnotera dysige recceað wordu soðlice snotera on wæge beoð awegene. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 233 Þe dunan þu awiðhst..mid þina hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online September 2021). aweighadv. Nautical. 1. With reference to a ship's anchor: lifted up from the bottom before sailing. Cf. a-trip adv. 2.Chiefly in predicative use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [adverb] > specific position of anchor aweigh1606 a-trip1790 1606 W. Arthur & H. Charteris Rollock's Lect. 1st & 2nd Epist. Paul to Thessalonians 10 He will spew out floods of persecution and tentation..to raise, if it were possible, the anchor of Faith in Christ, that the anchor being away, the man may flow and fleete, and at the last perish. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 27 Come is the Anchor a pike, heaue out your topsayles, haule your sheates; What's the Anchor away, yea, yea. 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 3 Trinc. Is the Anchor a Peek? Steph. Is a weigh! is a weigh! 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxii. 273 He'll as soon heave up the Pike of Teneriff, as bring his anchor aweigh! 1838 F. Chamier Jack Adams I. vii. 115 And here on this island I've found out a friend, And a girl to enliven my stay; But the hour of enjoyment will soon have an end, From the moment the anchor's aweigh. 1867 ‘O. Optic’ Outward Bound vi. 101 ‘Anchor aweigh, sir,’ reported the excited boatswain... ‘Anchor aweigh, sir,’ repeated the second lieutenant. 1987 D. J. House Seamanship Techniques I. ii. 39 When the anchor breaks clear and becomes ‘anchor aweigh’, then a rapid ringing of the bell will indicate to the Bridge that the anchor is aweigh. 2. Used to describe a ship or its crew that has weighed anchor and is setting sail. ΚΠ 1762 J. Wignell Coll. Orig. Pieces 123 The Winds, obsequ'ous, at his Word, Sprung strongly up t' obey their Lord, And saw two Fleets aweigh. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xvii. 286 ‘We are a-weigh,’ sung out the skipper. 1919 ‘Bartimeus’ Awfully Big Adventure i. ii. 105 About noon the signal came through, and by five o'clock we were aweigh. 2015 Western Morning News (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Features section) The crew were making ready for sea; they'd be aweigh before dawn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.OEadv.1606 |
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