aweigh
- 1Just lifted clear of the seabed and hanging vertically, said of a ship's anchor the instant it breaks free of the ground.
Like a tethered balloon the instant the last rope leaves the ground, held, but no longer fixed.
The bosun called out that the anchor was aweigh the moment the flukes lifted clear of the mud.
With the anchor aweigh, the helmsman brought the bow around to catch the morning tide.
Note
A word for the moment of departure, when a ship stops riding at anchor and begins to get under way. It is built like afloat or aboard: a- joined to weigh, the verb sailors use for raising an anchor. Like those words, it follows its noun (the anchor is aweigh) and has no degrees, so an anchor is never more aweigh. Atrip names the same instant.
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Origin
Formed from the prefix a- combined with weigh.