1. Of yards: Swayed up, ready to have the stops cut for crossing. Of sails: Hoisted from the cap, sheeted home, and ready for trimming. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 1867.
1626. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XI. 228. Then hoise their Yards a trip, and all their sailes.
1726. Penhallow, Ind. Wars (1859), 53. They got their mainsail atrip before that our men could get up theirs half mast high.
2. Of an anchor: Just raised perpendicularly from the ground in weighing.
1796. Dibdin, Poor Jack. From the moment the anchor’s atrip.
1849. W. Irving, Columbus, III. 68. One ship, with anchor atrip and sails unfurled, waited to receive Nicuesa.
