alow
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English alowe, equivalent to a- + low.
Adverb
[edit]alow (not comparable)
- (now chiefly Scotland) Low down. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow, / Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist […].
- (nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks. [from 16th c.]
- 1859, James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale:
- I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 26, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- Ay, Ay, Ay, all is up; and I must up too / Early in the morning, aloft from alow.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From a- + low, from low (“flame”).
Adjective
[edit]alow (not comparable)
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