Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Nautical Hanging clear of the bottom. Used of an anchor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Nautical, atrip. The anchor is aweigh when it is just drawn from its hold in the ground and hangs perpendicularly.
Seeatrip.
Wiktionary
- adj. Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. (Naut.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom
- adj. (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom
Examples
“I found some second hand oars that fit nicely and it was anchors aweigh.”
“Anchors aweigh, ship ahoy, and all that— remember?”
“If reeding you're techs t'is all-most tore-chore fore pea-pull, pleas bee shore two ewes thee rye-towards too right hear inn thee four-umms; its aweigh too lettuce no ewer knot uh more-ron.”
“May 3, 2010 at 3:45 pm r u gonna loaf ur life aweigh. com on bake hear!”
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“May 10, 2010 at 5:33 pm wii puts out peenuttz 4 da sqwirlz rite outside da bedrum windo. it iz fun 2 wake up 2 da sound ob little sqwirl feetz. den p.j., hour orange boi kitteh, tris 2 scar dem aweigh, but dey keepz comin back 4 jus 1 moor peenut.”
Somewhere in this city, a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“April 19, 2010 at 9:01 am nommmmmmmmmmm nommmmmmmmmmmm nommmmmmmmm go aweigh aiz meditiatin”
And THIS Yoga pose is called - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“April 12, 2010 at 5:07 pm bload ups ups an aweigh inna mi beutmous balloon….”
turn off the fan!!!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“May 3, 2010 at 3:32 pm gud 1 gammacat! u shur donut fritter aweigh ur tyme.”
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“June 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm yep, mai daddi tooked mai tbird aweigh.”
Don’tz wurry. I filled teh tank. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Anchors aweigh by Dave Kisor on Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 at 3: 26: 36 PM”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aweigh’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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AWE-some-Ful
some MT (empty)+ many awful = sum awe some
Sacajawea, top-drawer, Sulawesi, aweigh, unflawed, sawed-off, megaweber, kahoolawe island, drawerful, yawed, hawed, knawel and 25 more...
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Ways to find out
a good way, the hard way, one way, on the road to, a bad way, an easy way, another way, my way, edgeways, know way, thoroughfare, back way and 42 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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