apeak

adv

Etymology: From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.

1. In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.

   “Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.”

   “I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind.”