İngilizce dilinde "apeak" tanımı

adverb

1. (nautical, of an anchor) 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.