A
ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
ASHORE to AUGER
AWEIGH to AZIMUTH COMPASS
AWEIGH
AWNING
AZIMUTH-COMPASS
AZIMUTH COMPASS
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AWEIGH
AWEIGH (a quitte, Fr. of a and weigh) the state of the anchor when it is drawn out of the ground in a perpendicular direction, as in fig. 6. plate I. by the application of mechanical powers, as a capstern or windlass, to the cable within the ship; So that aweigh is synonimous to atrip.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 25, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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