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atrip

adj
/əˈtɹɪp/

Etymology

From a- + trip.

  1. derived from trippen — “to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”
  2. derived from triper
  3. derived from trippen
  4. prefixed as atrip — “a + trip”

Definitions

  1. Just clear of the ground.

    • The captain's anchor is pretty nigh atrip; I shouldn't wonder if he croaked afore morning.

  2. Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming.

  3. Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for atrip. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA