alow
1 Americanadverb
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below decks.
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(on a square-rigged sailing ship) in the lower rigging, specifically, below the lower yards (opposed to aloft).
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of alow1
1350–1400; earlier, downward, lower down, Middle English aloue; see a- 1, low 1
Origin of alow2
Example Sentences
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The Social Security Administration’s policy will alow people to select their sex in records “without needing to provide documentation of their sex designation,” Ms. Kijakazi said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Someone’s turned the chest out alow and aloft.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
All was drawing alow and aloft; every71 one was in the bravest spirits, because we were now so near an end of the first part of our adventure.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Why bide I till Pygmalion comes to lay my walls alow, Till taken by Getulian kings, Iarbas' slave I go?
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
For ye house & fortification, &c. he would not alow, nor accounte any thing, saing that they which build on another mans ground doe forfite ye same.
From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by Bradford, William
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