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alternative apeek

1. not comparablenauticalIn 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.

   a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy"

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   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.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163