Alow
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈləʊ/
Origin
Probably a reduced form of on low.
Full definition of alow
Adverb
alow
- (now chiefly Scottish) Low down. from 14th c.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8: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?
Preposition
- (Scotland) Below.