Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apeak"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apeak \A*peak"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + peak. Cf. F. [`a] pic
vertically.] (Naut.)
In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has
been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the
ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also {apeek}.]
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