Definitions for alow

alow a·low

Spelling: [uh-loh]
IPA: /əˈloʊ/

Alow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in alow (alow).

Definitions for alow

adverb

  1. below decks.
  2. (on a square-rigged sailing ship) in the lower rigging, specifically, below the lower yards (opposed to aloft).

adjective, adverb

  1. ablaze; aflame.

Origin of alow

1350-1400; earlier, downward, lower down, Middle English aloue; see a-1, low1

Examples for alow

If the heart, by the alow method of respiration, is pulsating in ratio of four to one respiration, no effect can be induced.

But nothing that took place, alow or aloft, escaped his keen observation.

For another day we continued to lie in the river; but the brig, alow and aloft, bustled with various activities.

Synonymous with below; as alow and aloft, though more properly low and aloft.

Up the rigging and down the stays, alow and aloft, out on the flying jib-boom and along the hammock nettings.

For the next week all was confusion on deck, alow and aloft.

She was a brigantine aloft, but alow she had much the same lines as the Laughing Lass.

alow me to hear dygress & stait that my Beests at presnt is as harmless as the newborn Babe.

As I am a profest lover of novelty you must alow me to be much entertained by this discovery.

Also they were faine to alow such large bills of charges as were intolerable; the charges of ye patent came to above 500li.

Word Value for alow
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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