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Aweigh
Aweigh meaning
Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor.
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According to “College Fight Songs: An Annotated Anthology” published in 1998, “Anchors Aweigh" ranks as the fifth greatest fight song of all time.
An anchor is described as aweigh when it has been broken out of the bottom and is being hauled up to be stowed.
Aweigh should not be confused with under way, which describes a vessel which is not moored to a dock or anchored, whether or not the vessel is moving through the water.
The term aweigh describes an anchor when it is hanging on the rope and is not resting on the bottom.