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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Nautical, with the ends pointing upward. Applied to an anchor when it hangs down by its ring from the cathead, and to the yards of a ship when they are tipped up at an angle with the deck.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. nautical Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
  2. adv. nautical Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
  2. adv. Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Etymologies

  1. Prefix a- + cock + bill: with bills cocked up. (Wiktionary)

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  1. to cockbill the anchor

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  • knitandpurl "Martin himself supervised them, and also ordered the sails set in counterpoise to each other, so that the ship would be as perfectly still as possible. Then he called out, "Top gallant yards, acock bill," an order that sent men scurrying up the rigging."
    A Burial at Sea by Charles Finch, p 95
    Jan 3, 2012

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