Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-PEAK'
A-PEAK', adv. [a and peak, a point. See Peak.]
- On the point; in a posture to pierce. – Johnson.
- In seamen's language, perpendicular. The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn so as to bring the ship directly over it. – Mar. Dict.
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