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Pee   /pi/   Listen
noun
Pea  n.  (Written also pee)  The sliding weight on a steelyard.


Peak  n.  
1.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak."
2.
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. "Silent upon a peak in Darien."
3.
(Naut.)
(a)
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
(b)
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(c)
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. (In the last sense written also pea and pee)
Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore.


Pee  n.  See 1st Pea.


Pee  n.  
1.
(Naut.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
2.
Urine.
3.
The act of urinating; used in the informal take a pee, meaning, to urinate.


verb
pee  v. i.  To urinate. (informal)





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"Pee" Quotes from Famous Books



... one of these was Murphy's aim, and often was he washed out on to the sands in a smother of spindrift, in his mad eagerness to attain his end. The herring-gulls were the finest sport of all, with their constant melancholy cries—"pew-il," "pee-ole," or their hoarser note of warning, "kak-k-kak"; their bodies two feet in length; their spread of wing no less than four feet four. For months he chased them, till at last some must possibly have known him. It was perhaps on this account that one of them was not quick ...
— 'Murphy' - A Message to Dog Lovers • Major Gambier-Parry
... the packages of fish, Marharvai opened it; and commended its contents to his particular regards. But my comrade was one of those who, on convivial occasions, can always take care of themselves. He ate an indefinite number of "Pee-hee Lee Lees" (small fish), his own and next neighbour's bread-fruit; and helped himself, to right and left, with all the ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... "Pee—ee-eh!" said Mr. Craig. "A man doesna want to see fur to know as th' English 'ull beat the French. Why, I know upo' good authority as it's a big Frenchman as reaches five foot high, an' they live upo' spoon-meat mostly. I knew a man as his ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... stopped short by Betty Williams, who, with a face of terror, exclaimed, "'Tis a poy in the hall, that I tare not pass for my lifes; he has a pasket full of pees in his hand, and I cannot apide pees, ever since one tay when I was a chilt, and was stung on the nose by a pee. The poy in the hall has a pasketful of pees, ma'am," said Betty, with an imploring accent, ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... "Ee-ung pee-ang, unk ah-wang!" As it resounded through the forest in his high-pitched, nasal tones, he was answered from the trees, and little, gray monkeys came swinging along to see who their visitor might be. Piang mischievously tossed a piece of the smoking moss to ...
— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart


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