Naut. [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. P. (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.
