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.