aloft
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7.4
High above a ship's deck on the mast or ropes
- adverb
- /əˈlɔft/
:
en la arboladura
- Get those men aloft!
- held aloft
- hoisted aloft
- keep aloft
Examples
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I go aloft, Captain.
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What's the matter, afraid to go aloft?
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Sharp look out aloft there!
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No one aloft in the yards."
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Tell me, sir, what is it that makes this man go aloft?
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-The old man sent him aloft.
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Rather heavy weather to send him aloft, isn't it?
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Up aloft and set the topgallants again.
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Hands aloft to loose the gallants!
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The sailors climbed aloft to adjust the sails during the storm.
How High
Surface Forms
aloft positive
Morphology
Etymology
Aloft comes from the prefix a- meaning 'on' and loft meaning 'high place' or 'the air', and sailors used it for someone up in the rigging. So aloft means 'high above the deck' or 'toward the top of the mast'.