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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

“Go for’ard and hard alee without any noise,” he said to me in a low voice. 

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack

These were doing their best to fly, but failing of that luck, put helm alee, and shivered in the wind, and made fine speeches, proving that they must win the day.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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




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