Crossword clues for alow
alow
- In the hold, asea
- Nautical term
- Nautical word
- Keep ___ profile
- Not topside
- Near the deck
- Keep ___ profile (be secretive)
- Near the ship's deck
- Keep --- profile
- Keep -- profile
- Keep __ profile (avoid publicity)
- In the hold, to sailors
- Have -- tolerance for
- Have ___ tolerance for
- Engine room site, to the captain
- Downward, nautically
- Down: Nautical
- "That was ___ blow!"
- "... high hope for __ heaven": Shak
- "___ Down Dirty Shame" (1994 movie)
- 'That was -- blow!'
- "That's ___ blow!"
- In the hold, nautically
- Under the decks
- Strike ___ blow
- "What ___ blow!"
- Down from the deck
- On a deck beneath
- Down, to Drake
- Down, to a salt
- Salt's "down"
- "Punning is ___ species of wit": N. Webster
- Below deck, at sea
- Under, to seamen
- Down, at sea
- Antonym of aloft
- Down, to a skipper
- Down in the hold
- Ship area
- Down, to a tar
- Opposite of aloft
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alow \A*low"\, adv. [Pref. a- + low.]
Below; in a lower part. ``Aloft, and then alow.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context now chiefly Scottish English) low down. (from 14th c.) 2 (context nautical English) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks. (from 16th c.) prep. (context Scotland English) below.
Usage examples of "alow".
It seemed a hopeless chase for these shells to sail after that dying monster with her cloud of canvas all drawing, alow and aloft.
At last they were fortunate enough to catch the southeast trade, but it was so languid at first that the ship barely moved through the water, though they set every stitch, and studding sails alow and aloft, till really she was acres of canvas.
He tasted passion, heard alow murmur in her throat that made the blood in his veins run hot.
Surprise spread more canvas: studdingsails alow and aloft, royals, the rarely-seen but useful spritsail topsail, all the jibs that would set and a cloud of staysails.
Surprise spread more canvas: studdingsails alow and aloft, royals, the rarely-seen but useful spritsail topsail, all the jibs that would set and a cloud of staysails.
The villaine leauing him vnto his mateTo be captiu'd, and handled as he list,Himselfe addrest vnto this new debate,And with his club him all about so blist,That he which way to turne him scarcely wist:Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow.
Six or at the most seven knots was her utmost limit, even with the wind abaft the beam--studdingsails aloft and alow, and even kites, strange sails without a name, all set and drawing- and once they had hauled their wind three points, even six was beyond her power, driven though she was with all the resources of seamanship and an able, willing crew.
That with some our prowed invisors how their ulstravoliance led them infroraids, striking down and landing alow, against our aerian insulation resistance, two boards that beached,ast one, widness thane and tysk and hanry.
In spite of the Surprise's splendid display of light fair-weather canvas - studdingsails aloft and alow, royals and even skysails and skyscrapers - she rarely logged more than a hundred miles between one observation and the next.
Those long urgent summer days shone clear in his mind, the blue white-flecked sea and fifteen men-of-war racing eastwards on that blessed wind, studdingsails aloft and alow on either side, royals and skysails, and Rear-Admiral Nelson pacing the Vanguard's deck from before sunrise until after sunset: all that, and the fury of the battle by night, with the darkness perpetually torn and lit by gunfire, and in the midst of it all the unbelievably vast explosion as L'Orient blew up, leaving nothing but silence and blackness for several minutes after.