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alength

alength adverb: lengthwise.

Adverb

alength (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) lengthwise
    • Afterwards they fastened yt wyth yrone at bothe endes. And also alengthe, very artyfyciallye, aftere manner of a pipe, and to one of the endes they fastened wyth chaynes of yronne a greate cawdrone of brasse
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)1550, Thomas Nicolls (Translator), Thucydides, The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, Book 4, pg. Cxviii

Questions about alength

What does alength mean?
Alength means lengthwise.
What part of speech is alength?
Alength is an adverb.

Words near alength in the dictionary

  1. Alen
  2. Alencar
  3. alendronate
  4. alendronates
  5. alendronic acid
  6. alength
  7. Alentejan
  8. Alentejans
  9. Alentejo
  10. alentemol
  11. Alençon

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