Be off, get you gone. To weigh anchor is to lift it from its moorings, so that the shipmay start on her voyage. As soon as this is done the ship is under-weigh—i.e. in movement. (Saxon, wægan, to liftup, carry.)
“Getoff with you; come, come! weigh anchor.”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary.
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