| 单词 | to weigh anchor | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto weigh anchor  a.  Nautical. To heave up (a ship's anchor) from the ground, before sailing. Now usually  to weigh anchor (without article). †Formerly also with up, in. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor			[verb (intransitive)]		 > anchor > weigh anchor to weigh anchor?a1400 to loose the anchor?c1450 disanchor1477 weigh1513 loose1526 to loose one's bark1567 up killick1837–40 up-anchor1889 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship)			[verb (transitive)]		 > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor > weigh (anchor) weigh?a1400 loosec1440 rear?c1475 levy1648 sway1790 ?a1400    Morte Arth. 740  				Wyghtly one þe wale thay wye up þaire ankers. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Patience l. 103  				Wiȝt at þe wyndas weȝen her ankres. c1440						 (?a1400)						    Morte Arthure l. 493  				They weyde vp þeire ankyrs. 1492    in  Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes 		(1839)	 I. 245/1  				Compelling of þe saidis Wegeantis seruitouris to wey þer ankeris. 1509    A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys 		(Pynson)	 f. li  				Come to our shyp our ankers ar in wayde. ?1518    Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.ijv  				Than Cocke wayed anker and housed his sayle. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xliiiiv  				When the wynde was prosperous..they waied vp the Ankers. 1582    R. Stanyhurst tr.  Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis  iii. 52  				We weyed the anchors. 1589    Voy. W. Towrson in  R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations  i. 101  				We wayed our Grapnel and went away. 1626    J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 27  				Break ground, or way Anchor, heaue a head. 1632    W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav.  ii. 45  				The windes fauouring vs, we weighed Ankors. 1653    H. Holcroft tr.  Procopius Gothick Warre  i. 11 in  tr.  Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian  				Constantianus wayed Anchor from Epidaurus. a1665    K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean 		(1868)	 19  				I weighed anchor and sett sayle. 1720    D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 182  				We weighed Anchor the same Tide, and stood out to Sea. 1773    J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III.  iii. ix. 651  				In the mean time, as the ship tended, I weighed anchor. 1815    W. Scott Lord of Isles  iii. iv. 86  				Cormac Doil..Hoisted his sail, his anchor weigh'd. 1835    J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage v. 77  				We immediately weighed anchor. 1877    19th Cent. Dec. 769  				It was misty and rainy when we weighed anchor, but we made the buoy on the Narrows Bank without difficulty. 1940    M. Dickens Mariana ix. 339  				The Captain of the Piccolino had a carefree habit of weighing anchor according to whim rather than schedule. 1997    T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen 		(1999)	 viii. 221  				The sun rose as we weighed anchor and headed west. < as lemmas  | 
	
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