aland en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /əˈland/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.
c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V]:
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(archaic, not-comparable, poetic) To the land; ashore.
Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]
c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846: