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Aloft

//əˈlɔft// adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    At, to, or in the air or sky.

    "high winds aloft"

  2. 2
    Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

    "Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft."

  3. 3
    In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

    "I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in the higher atmosphere above the earth wordnet
  2. 2
    at or to great height; high up in or into the air wordnet
  3. 3
    upward wordnet
  4. 4
    at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship wordnet

Etymology

From Old Norse á lopti (“in the sky”); equivalent to a- + loft.

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