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To "weigh anchor" is to bring all anchor(s) aboard the vessel in preparation for departure. In response to the order, the phrase "anchors aweigh" reports back that ''all'' anchors are clear of the sea bottom; therefore the ship is officially ''under way''.
"Anchors aweigh" is often misspelled as "Anchor's away", leading to confusing the terms, and sometimes misunderstanding the order as meaning "to drop anchor".{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} Confusion may
Although the original (now archaic) "aweigh" is verbal and transitive, the "aweigh" used now is adjectival/adverbial in nature and meaning.<ref name=navy>{{cite web|url=https://www.usna.edu/USNABand/about/anchors.php|title=Anchors Aweigh|website=[[United States Naval Academy]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/aweigh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107034310/http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/aweigh |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 7, 2013 |title=Aweigh|work= Oxford U.S. Dictionary|publisher=Oxford Dictionaries}}</ref> "Weigh" as a verb means to "bear" or "move", thus giving it several shades of meaning and derivation, including "weight" or "heaviness".
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