a-weigh, advb. phr. Naut.
(əˈweɪ)
[a prep.1 + weigh.]
Of an anchor: Just raised perpendicularly from the ground; = a-peak, a-trip. (Said loosely also of the vessel or its crew.)
| 1627 [see away 2]. 1670 Dryden Tempest i. i, Trinc. Is the Anchor a Peek? Steph. Is a weigh! is a weigh. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxvii. 230 He'll as soon heave up the peak of Teneriff, as bring his anchor aweigh. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 320 ‘We are a-weigh,’ sung out the skipper. |