apeak

Etymology
From, compare with Italian.

Adverb

 * 1)  In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
 * 2) * a 1796,, "Nautical Philosophy":
 * Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.
 * 1) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163:
 * 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.