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Alew

A-lewβ€²

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Noun.
Halloo.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Definition 2024


alew

alew

English

Noun

alew β€Ž(plural alews)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
      Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.

Gothic

Romanization

alew

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌴π