Crossword-Solution: APEAK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apeak | adv. & a. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with APEAK (5)
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.
She lay, with her anchor apeak, about a mile from the shore, and no canoe could approach her in any direction without being distinctly seen and exposed to the full fire of our swivels immediately.
Whenever we were coming back from a land journey, our eyes sought one thing in the distance first--the ship --and when we saw it riding at anchor with the flag apeak, we felt as a returning wanderer feels when he sees his home.
Anchor’s apeak! Heave ahead and get under way.” So, because he could not well refuse, the author reluctantly began to read.
Anchor's apeak." He then gave his orders in stentorian roars; the anchor was hove up, catted and fished; one sail went up after another, the Proserpine's head came round, and away she bore for England with a fair wind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 81 times in crossword archives (1949–2020).