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单词 aweigh
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aweighv.

Forms: 1. Present stem Old English awegan, Old English aweh (imperative singular), early Middle English awiðhst (2nd singular indicative, perhaps transmission error). Also 3rd singular indicative Old English awecð (rare), Old English awehð, Old English awihð, Old English awyhþ, Old English awyhð, early Middle English aweȝð, early Middle English aweigeð. 2. Past tense Old English awæg, Old English awæh, Old English awegan (plural), Old English aweh. 3. Past participle a. Strong Old English awegen. b. Weak late Middle English aweyde.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old High German irwegan (Middle High German erwegen ) < the Germanic base of or- prefix (compare a- prefix1) + the Germanic base of weigh v.1In Old English a strong verb of Class V. The late Middle English weak past participle aweyde could alternatively be interpreted as showing a variant of yweid , past participle of weigh v.1 (compare a- prefix2 2). Compare also the ultimately related weak Class I verb Old English awecgan (early Middle English awecge , past participle aweged ) to move, agitate (cognate with or formed similarly to Gothic uswagjan to arouse, excite < the Germanic base of or- prefix (compare a- prefix1) + the Germanic base of weigh v.2).
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To move (someone or something) by lifting up or carrying away, esp. to carry off, remove.
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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).
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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).
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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.

Brit. /əˈweɪ/, U.S. /əˈweɪ/
Forms: 1600s– away, 1600s– aweigh.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: a- prefix3, weigh v.1
Etymology: < a- prefix3 + weigh v.1 Compare earlier a-peak adv.The form away is usual in early use (compare the variants listed at weigh v.1), but from the late 17th century is superseded by the form aweigh. Subsequently, uses of the form away are typically associated or identified with (etymologically unrelated) away adv., now especially in the phrase anchors aweigh at anchor n.1 Phrases 4.
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.
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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.
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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).
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