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alee

[uh-lee] / əˈli /


ADVERB
onward
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The 720 ft ship was doing 27 knots and the helm was hard alee.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2022

With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held by Leftists.

From Time Magazine Archive

When life was young, my white sail hung O’er ocean’s crystal floor; In the fiords alee was the dreaming sea, And the deep sea waves before.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah

The wind tore the words from Scully's lips and scattered them far alee.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Crane, Stephen

Wild wasp and tutored bee sing sideways on their course as the breeze fills their vanes; with broad coloured sails boomed out, the butterfly drifts alee.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard




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