apeak

adv. 垂直着 a. 垂直着的

发音

/əˈpiːk/

别名

apeek

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

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

    航海 交通

    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.

词源

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

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