alow


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alow

(əˈləʊ)
adv, adj
(Nautical Terms) (postpositive) nautical in or into the lower rigging of a vessel, near the deck
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Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and so, alow here, does jolly Stubb.
The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry.
Micawber, with the old genteel air, 'the probability is, all will be found so exciting, alow and aloft, that when the lookout, stationed in the main-top, cries Land-oh!
“Life is as unsartain as the wind that blows,” said Benjamin, with a moralizing air; “and nothing is more varible than the wind, Mistress Remarkable, unless you hap pen to fall in with the trades, d’ye see, and then you may run for the matter of a month at a time, with studding-sails on both sides, alow and aloft, and with the cabin-boy at the wheel.”
Every thing was made snug, alow and aloft; and as the wind steadily freshened, we lay to, at length, under spanker and foretopsail, both double-reefed.
So saying, Captain MacElrath turned and glanced aft, aloft and alow, and the pilot, following his gaze, saw the mute but convincing explanation of that loss of time.
Anon, there would embark in that troop-ship when she got to Gravesend, a mighty general, of large property (name also unknown), who wouldn't hear of going to victory without his wife, and whose wife was the lovely woman, and she was destined to become the idol of all the red coats and blue jackets alow and aloft.
service in the good old days when mail-boats were square-rigged at least on two masts, and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun'-sails set alow and aloft.
Ashraf also claimed that the Brotherhood students agreed to not alow the media to attend despite other students calling for a vote on the resolution.
In the meantime, we prefer to focus on Russia's relative volatility: in the competition for capital, we believe that despite the alow' volatility reading globally over the past 6M or so, the Russian market has missed out on fund flows in part due to its high volatility relative to other EMs (Figure 2).
Alow level of social skills in early adolescence predicts depression in both girls and boys during later adolescence, and a lack of friend support in middle adolescence mediates this relationship for girls but not for boys, according to findings from a longitudinal population-based study.
Favourable climate conditions (high seasonal temperatures, winds) for the solar evaporation of brine alow the seasonal fractional crystallization leading to the production of NaCl through the evaporation and concentration of seawater in crystallization basins.