SG Heritage Dictionary

Apeak [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One the point; in a posture to pierce.

2. In seamen's language, perpendicular. The anchor is apeak when the cable is drawn so as to bring the ship directly over it.

Apeak [Adverb and adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.