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English
Prepositional phrase
underweigh
- (dated) Alternative form of under way
1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia:At dawn of day, (17th) we got underweigh and steered through the islands; at noon, we were abreast of Termination Island, the latitude of which we found to be 34 degrees 32 minutes.
1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:We have got some five or six of them fairly underweigh, as Jack would say, and hope the remainder will speedily trip their anchors and follow."
1884, A C, F T Gregory, Journals of Australian Explorations:Got underweigh at 1 p.m., and stood to the south-west, under topsails, stemming a strong ebb tide to 3.30, when we came to anchor in five fathoms (sand and shells), about three miles from the western shore of the bay, Sloping Head bearing north by east five miles.
1896, Emily Lawless, The Story Of Ireland:Many turned resolutely back, preferring rather to die than to attempt life under such new and hopeless conditions, and stern examples had to be made before the unwilling emigrants were at last fairly got underweigh.
1907, Walter Runciman, Looking Seaward Again:The captain of the Claverhouse, however, got underweigh, but before getting very far his engineer reported that the hot-well cover had broken in two.
Verb
underweigh (third-person singular simple present underweighs, present participle underweighing, simple past and past participle underweighed)
- To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight)