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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

[Pref.

weigh

(Naut.)

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; – said of the anchor.

Totten.

adv.

[a and weigh.] Atrip. The anchor is aweigh, when it is just drawn out of the ground, and hangs perpendicular. [See Atrip.]

aweigh ‎(not comparable)

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor.

drawn out; hanging