The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To pry; to peep slyly.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
To become sick or wan.
At the greatest extent; maximum.
bad or unfortunate.
Unlucky; unfortunate
Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
Bad
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
The front part of the neck.
Station throat.
The inside of a timber knee.
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
The gullet or windpipe.
To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)