Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aloft
IPA transcription: [əl'ɔft]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aloft
    Meaning: in the higher atmosphere above the earth; "weather conditions aloft are fine"
  • Synonyms: aloft
    Meaning: at or to great height; high up in or into the air; "eagles were soaring aloft"; "dust is whirled aloft"
  • Synonyms: aloft
    Meaning: upward; "the good news sent her spirits aloft"
  • Synonyms: aloft
    Meaning: at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship; "climbed aloft to unfurl the sail"
Usage examples
  • Red Jacket (From Aloft)
  • "Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried.
  • It rushes aloft thirty or forty feet above the top of the tree, forming a grand spectacle, especially at night.
  • But when I proceeded to take the latter in, I found that the halliards were somehow jammed aloft, and I shinned up to clear them.
  • They got him out and emptied him; Alas it was too late; His spirit was gone for to sport aloft In the realms of the good and great.
  • For on a cape to the westward stood a giant, taller than any mountain pine; who glittered aloft against the sky like a tower of burnished brass.
  • They were familiar with the way in which the caravans travel through the desert: in front of the leader is borne aloft a brazier filled with coals.
  • 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.
  • Thereupon his head he lifted, And he gazed aloft to heaven, And beheld a glorious rainbow; On the arch the maiden seated As she wove a golden fabric. As the silver comb resounded.
  • But aloft over its ridge the moon floated in the softest, loveliest blue, with just a cloud here and there to show how blue it was, and a sparkle where its blueness took fire in a star.