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alow

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alow [əˈləʊ]
adv & adj
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (postpositive) Nautical in or into the lower rigging of a vessel, near the deck
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Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and so, alow here, does jolly Stubb.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Micawber, with the old genteel air, 'the probability is, all will be found so exciting, alow and aloft, that when the lookout, stationed in the main-top, cries Land-oh
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
“Life is as unsartain as the wind that blows,” said Benjamin, with a moralizing air; “and nothing is more varible than the wind, Mistress Remarkable, unless you hap pen to fall in with the trades, d’ye see, and then you may run for the matter of a month at a time, with studding-sails on both sides, alow and aloft, and with the cabin-boy at the wheel.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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