Underweigh

Quick meaning: Underweigh meaning To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight).

Meaning

To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight).

More Meanings

1. (dated) Alternative form of under way.

Example Sentences

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."

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• underweighs
• underweighing
• underweighed

Related Words

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