Aleft

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    To or on the left-hand side. archaic, not-comparable

    "Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice."

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"Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice."

Etymology

From a- + left.

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